November 26, 2025 • 38 mins
Impact doesn’t wait for a title or a perfect moment. From his first day in sales after leaving full-time ministry to leading sales effectiveness at Frontier Communications, Tim Beauchamp shows how belief, discipline, and service can transform a career and a culture. We dig into the two pivots that shaped him: stepping into the marketplace with a calling to serve, and facing a painful job loss that stripped away trophies and revealed what endures.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:06):
Welcome to the Leader Impact Podcast.
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at LeaderImpact.com.
I'm your host, Lisa Peters, andour guest today is Tim Beachum.
Tim is the Senior Director forSales Effectiveness at Frontier
Communications, the largest peerplay provider of fiber
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technology and services in theUnited States.
His team accelerates salesperformance through coaching,
training, and AI-driveninnovation.
Tim began his career infull-time ministry, but quickly
realized that God's calling forhim extended beyond the local
church into the marketplace.
As he's pursued this path, hehas seen God's hand guiding his
work and producing lastingimpact, confirming his true
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calling to lead, mentor, anddevelop people in business.
Known for his optimism,decisiveness, and ability to
build positive team cultures, hebrings enthusiasm to every
challenge.
He's been an active member ofthe Leader Impact community for
five years, helping establishthe North Texas cohort and
recently hosting the U.S.
Leader Impact season kickoff inChicago.
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Tim's wife, family with fourdaughters, is based in North
Texas and he's a raving fan oftrekking the Canadian Rockies,
scuba diving, and spending timewith his daughters.
Welcome to the show, Tim.
SPEAKER_00 (01:43):
Lisa, thank you so much.
It's great to be able to spend afew minutes with you.
SPEAKER_01 (01:48):
Well, I love you even more that you're a fan of
trekking, actually, raving fanof trekking the Canadian
Rockies.
SPEAKER_00 (01:56):
You know, some of our fondest memories with our
family, and we've done this fora number of years.
Uh, and it's typically inNovember.
Uh, a few years ago, we decided,hey, third week of November, uh,
those of you who are familiarwith the United States, we have
our Thanksgiving at that time.
And uh we decided, hey, we'regonna go up not only in the
summer to Alberta and do hikingand um uh water rapids and all
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that during the summer, but inthe winter, um go up there in
Lake Louise and Canmore andBanff, etc., and do some winter
hiking, which is completelydifferent, as you know.
But a little funny story.
We learned quickly that the USThanksgiving is not the Canada
Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
And so the challenge was to find turkey on
Thanksgiving Day, which uh wewere not successful and still
have not been for a number ofyears, unless we go to a
restaurant.
And so we've settled forTurduccan.
Turduckan for our Thanksgivingmeal.
But but we love coming up toCanada and uh we'll continue to
do so in years to come.
SPEAKER_01 (03:01):
Ah, well, we love having you.
SPEAKER_00 (03:03):
Excellent.
SPEAKER_01 (03:04):
All right, well, we're gonna begin our podcast,
and we love hearing about yourprofessional story and how did
you get from where you are towhere you are today?
And mostly we want to hear aboutthose pivotal, if you have a
pivotal turning point along thatjourney.
SPEAKER_00 (03:16):
Absolutely.
So, two pivotable, pivotal,excuse me, turning points in uh
my business career.
The first, it makes me thinktoday at Frontier
Communications, where I'm uhcurrently in a leadership role,
when new hires come on board,the first thing that we
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communicate with them on theirfirst day is impact begins
today.
Impact begins today, and theyusually look up, they're trying
to process a lot of information,and we share with them it begins
today, not in four weeks, not intwo weeks, not in three days.
In fact, today, on your firstday, you will start prospecting
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and talking to strangers.
And impact doesn't have to be inthe spotlight either.
No one needs to know how manyhours you work, as far as over
the weekend, late into theevening, but the focus is on the
impact.
And we share this with them toshow them that we believe in
them.
And we've seen over and overagain that growth follows
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belief.
And so that makes me think of myfirst day as a salesperson.
I actually was here downtownDallas a number of years ago.
I had never been in sales and uhgot there early.
I'd never been downtown Dallas.
We lived in a suburb, and Iwalked into the office, it was
dark.
I saw a light in the back of theoffice and went to the back, and
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it was the break room.
And I turned the corner, had mynotepad, and there was a
gentleman that was actuallylaying on the table in the break
room, um, relaxing, which was, Ithought, strange.
And he sat up, red-eyed, alittle cloudy, looked like he
had had a fulfilling weekend, abusy weekend, and uh he hollered
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at me and said, Who are you?
And that was my welcome intosales, my first day.
Lo and behold, he was the topsalesperson at that location.
Oh, see, what's highly unusualabout this is the week prior to
that, I was in full-timeministry at a church.
And so imagine going from threeyears of ministry, visiting
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people in hospitals, leadingeducation programs, music, and
suddenly downtown Dallas in abusiness environment, and that
was the warm welcome.
There's an individual, LarryCarter, that believed in me.
I had to step down from thatchurch because the senior pastor
at that time, unfortunately, hadbeen unfaithful in his personal
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life, and I couldn't remain atthat church in that environment.
So that started the beginning ofa sales career.
Larry hired me, he believed inme, and over the next 25 plus
years, the career took off froma business perspective.
And one of the things that Ilearned quickly was that my
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calling wasn't just to have animpact for those that are going
to church, but an impact in thebusiness world to be highly
successful, have an impact onnew hires, sales leaders.
And it makes me think of thatpassage in Matthew that talks
about if you're faithful withfew, you'll be ruler over many.
And so in the businessenvironment, I realized even in
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the downtimes that God was stillusing me to have an impact on
other people.
That's the first key turningpoint.
Fast forward 25 years, COVID andlooking up and realizing
restructuring in theorganization.
I had been in leadership roles,national accounts, regional
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director, national director, andsuddenly unemployed.
And so when I found this out, Ishared with my wife, Sharon, and
she was elated and wanted tohigh-five.
And this is the best thing thatcould happen to you.
Great opportunity.
What God might have for younext.
To me, I was crushed, Lisa.
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And that sense of emptiness, andwithin 24 hours, to be taking
down the plaques and all thememories and all the uh quotas
that our teams had hit, thesuccessful results, and uh
quickly realized that within 24hours chasing success really
came up empty.
Yeah.
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And um, so I dove right intointerviewing and uh within a few
days received a call from um aheadhunter, and the headhunter
um said, Hey, FrontierCommunications is looking for
this position, started theinterview process.
Now, here's the punchline.
Going through this wholeprocess, um, several interviews,
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and uh they communicated with meand said, We're gonna frame up
an opportunity for you, anoffer, and uh we're gonna go
ahead and send that to youwithin the next couple of days.
And within a couple days, Ireceived an email, and the email
said, Um, we want to thank youfor your interest in Frontier,
and we've decided to go adifferent direction.
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And again, just crushed,thinking I did every everything
right.
And um, I got to that point tosay, Lord, if Frontier is not
the company for me to be at, Itrust you.
I I released that.
Yeah.
At the same time, I thought in 2Timothy it says, God has not
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given us a spirit of fear, butpower, love, and a sound mind.
So I called them back andreached out to our contact,
talked with James, said, James,obviously disappointed.
What can I do better?
And James said, What email?
We didn't send you an email.
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And I read it to him, and hesaid, That email was supposed to
go to somebody else.
In fact, your offer is comingright now.
unknown (09:24):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (09:24):
So that key turning point was letting go, trusting
in God, not having the spirit offear, being confident as a
business person, and reachingout, standing up, being firm.
God had a different plan.
And now the past five years havebeen a remarkable experience
here at French.
SPEAKER_01 (09:44):
And what if you never made that call?
SPEAKER_00 (09:47):
To think of it.
And and think of friends andfolks we come in contact with
that we can encourage to beconfident and um are in a
scenario where they think all islost, and it might just be one
step that they need to take.
SPEAKER_01 (10:00):
Yeah.
unknown (10:01):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (10:02):
Great stories.
I want to go back to the firstone.
When you show up at the office,your first job, sales job, and
the guy's laying on the table.
And because I I really like I'mwaiting for your pivotal moment,
and I'm thinking it's fromministry to a job.
Because many people think, youknow, to be Christian, I have to
have a Christian job orsomething.
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Well, no, we we are marketplaceleaders.
So here you are, marketplaceleader.
And I think, was did you kind offeel this moment?
Is God calling me to ministerthis man?
Like here he is, right?
SPEAKER_00 (10:36):
He's yes.
First I was thinking, oh mygoodness, what have I gotten
myself into?
Yeah, my head's spinning.
Am I going to be able to dothis?
And once again, I'm thankful forLarry's belief in me that hey,
you are a salesperson, you cando this.
But um, yes, there is that senseof confusion.
You know, when we all get umoff-center, our head starts to,
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it happens to all of us, and wehave to come back to our
foundation.
And I think in 1 Peter 4:10, ittalks about um how each of you
should use whatever gift you'vereceived to serve others as
stewards of God's grace invarious forms.
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And so um, yes, there was thatconfusion.
Yes, to be an environment thatis not incubated like at church,
and um people talk differentways, don't use proper language,
um, not everyone's honest, andit's in business in general, and
uh, but that was the dooropening to be able to serve
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others and to be really asteward of God's grace.
SPEAKER_01 (11:44):
Yeah, that's a great story.
I I I loved it.
Thank you for sharing thatbecause I think we're all put in
those situations where we'relike, like truthfully, I look up
really God.
Is this is this what we'redoing?
Is this where you're putting metoday?
That's I asked for ways that Icould serve and then I get put
in this situation.
SPEAKER_00 (12:00):
Oh my god.
I I have a uh dear friend ShannGastoneau, and uh known him for
25 plus years.
Um and he says, on the way todoing something, I became
someone.
Oh that that's my lifeexperience.
And uh I think we'd be amazedthat most people are
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experiencing the same thing.
SPEAKER_01 (12:22):
Yeah.
Oh, that's a we had Shan on manypodcasts ago, and that is a
great, yeah, that's really good.
All right.
Well, we're gonna continue withour second question of your best
principle of success.
We would love to hear one.
And if you have a story thatillustrates that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:41):
Going back once again as a young salesperson,
there was an individual that wasuh successful sales leader, and
he came to our company and leddifferent training sessions.
His name was Ken Miller, and Kenis uh still alive today, and I
texted him a couple weeks ago,but this was over 30 years ago,
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and he led the standardstructured training that we had
to go through.
But the thing that came out withhim is that he believed in the
individuals that were in hisdifferent classes, and one of
the things he um did at the endof the session was he rolled out
um a concept of the commondenominator of success.
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And it was actually written byAlbert Gray, and this goes back
to like 19.
I obviously was not alive at thetime, but um it was a
presentation that Albert Graygave back in 1935, 1940.
But the principles remain truestill today, they're key factors
that contribute to success inreally any endeavor.
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And um, the focus is on what isit that successful people do?
This is from a businessperspective, and that is that
she or he forms the habit ofdoing things that failures don't
like to do.
And he rolled that out at theend of the session.
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And as a young person, Ithought, okay, great, I want to
go back to my city, startcalling, make a lot of money.
And years later, almost 15 yearslater, I was going through a
file cabinet and uh found whathe had handed out and brought it
back and read it, and it startedto make sense that successful
people they don't necessarilylove the things that they have
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to do, the habits, but they'redriven by their purpose as the
engine that they're disciplinedenough to form those habits to
be successful.
And so, once again, here for thepast few years, when someone, in
fact, I have a copy of it here,can get it on Amazon.
It's an easy, easy read.
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Um, we introduce this to thosethat come on board.
And we remind them and walk themthrough how important it is that
when you feel like yourpipeline's not growing, when
you're not hitting your numbers,if your customers are not
pleased, um, we talk to themabout TNT.
Takes no talent.
You should be on time, youshould work hard, you should be
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honest, diligent.
All of those are the basics, butyou should form habits that will
help you drive a healthypipeline.
A mentor here, one of our seniorvice presidents, Joe Pelloteri,
says a high healthy pipelinedrives predictable revenue
growth.
And as leaders, our role is toexpose areas that need
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discipline to create habits.
And so creating habits.
unknown (15:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:39):
That falls into our personal life, Lisa, as well.
Yeah.
What is it that maybe we don'tlike?
And it's so much easier toabsorb the pain of missing our
goal than to be disciplined andcreating those couple habits
together.
SPEAKER_01 (15:56):
Um I'm gonna repeat that book.
It was Common Denominator ofSuccess by Albert Gray.
Yes.
I gotta look that up.
Yeah.
Some of those, those are theclassics.
There are some great classics.
Um, as you were speaking, andI'm thinking, what is it
successful people do?
And there was an interview wedid, and it was Cindy Claussen,
and she talked about the goldmedal and the treasures we have
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on Earth.
So I think of when you lost yourjob and you were packing up all
those medals and all thoseplaques and everything, they
mean they mean nothing.
Um they do, they're they'regreat, you won them, yay, but
it's she talked about her medal,and it's starting to um uh
oxidize, and you know, like it'sa gold medal.
It's you know, and she has fivefrom one Olympics.
SPEAKER_00 (16:38):
Amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:39):
Those are the treasures on earth, and they
will they don't mean anything.
They they didn't, you know, youlost your job.
You you you like how brilliantthat is uh of a statement that
it's not about the treasures wegather on earth.
SPEAKER_00 (16:53):
It's you know the interesting thing is I believe
that happens to the majority ofindividuals that are in in
business, and that can be a homebusiness, it could be a big
corporate business like this.
But the the interesting thing isif you've made an impact on
other individuals, that comesback to you.
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A lot of times it's years laterwhen individuals come up to you,
say, Lisa, that podcast from2022 with uh Ryan Walters that
made an impact on my life.
It did with me, listening to itwhat, three, four years ago.
Remember listening to that abouthunger and uh made an impact in
my life.
But um, it's not the trophies,certificates, it's the impact we
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had on other people.
SPEAKER_01 (17:39):
Yeah.
I'm currently preparing akeynote on uh the ripple of one
person.
And that and it's it's for agroup of volunteers, but talking
about the leadership that theyprovide, because you never know
who you will affect two years,you know, and someone comes up
to me and said, Remember, yousaid that to me, I saw that, I
you know, yeah.
So great story, thank you forsharing.
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Um you kind of mentioned aboutlearning more from our failures,
you you know, what successfulpeople do, they they you know,
I'm learning from our failures,like they they take them as
we'll learn.
So if you have one, a failure, amistake that has happened,
because we know we learn more.
We we learn more than that fromour own successes.
So if you have one and a storyto share.
SPEAKER_00 (18:19):
Absolutely.
Failures qualify us to beleaders.
Uh, in Henry Cloud's book, uh,in one of our leader impact
groups, we've read uh Integrity.
And in there, he talks aboutcoaching some young gentlemen,
uh, some brothers, and uhcoaches them on as they're
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entering into life, going off tocollege, and talks about three
things.
Uh, you need to be exceptional,exceptional in your trade, what
you do, full of integrity, andthen also building alliances
across the business and outsideof the business.
Um, if we slip in any of thoseareas, it can definitely impact
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our outcome.
Exceptional in trade meaningstaying disciplined, studying,
being the best every day, notresting uh on our laurels when
we need to be the best that wecan.
I remember we had secured ameeting with the CIO of a
municipality here in Texas thistime, and uh quite an
opportunity.
And so, in our pre-call with theclient, the client was very
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direct and saying, Tim, here arethe things I'd like you to
cover, here are our challenges.
Um, I look forward to hearingyour proposal and solution with
your team.
And I at the time was doing verywell, a little cocky, and uh, we
didn't prepare as we should.
And we did a little bit ofpre-call planning, but went into
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the meeting, sort of winging it,didn't have an agenda, and um,
it went south quickly.
And Bernie had uh was retiredmilitary before he had been in
this position, and he didn'tpull any punches in the meeting,
and the meeting did not go well.
And I realized, man,immediately, who can I point the
finger at?
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The next day Bernie called me,and I remember specifically him
saying, Tim, you can do betterthan this.
Wow.
A year later, he finallyaccepted another meeting.
We were prepared.
Yeah, it took a year askingforgiveness, being prepared, me
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asking forgiveness of the teamthat man, I missed the mark in
preparation.
We were able to close thebusiness.
Bernie recently sent a picture,a text of grandchild
relationship completely changednow.
But that was a that was a toughlesson.
That was a that was a failure.
My my mom used to say she was amusician.
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Music or life is like a piano.
You get out of it depends onwhat you get out of it depends
on how you play it.
And uh that one that one was notplayed well.
SPEAKER_01 (21:08):
Yeah.
So I have to ask, in that yearthat you were, you know, um
reflecting, what did you did youdo anything for the client in
that year?
Did you, you know, send reportsand say, hey, I thought of you?
Um, I uh just did you think ofthe client in the year?
Did you share?
Did you I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (21:28):
We did.
We continued to follow up, um,continued to share with uh the
client about our expansion inthat area.
Um this municipality is uh asizable municipality next to a
very large university, uh veryprominent university.
And so we knew the ramificationsof the ripple effect that word
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travels, uh, that if there's uha poor proposal, uh to be
cautious that would spread withother clientele, uh, making
efforts to go and try to meet inperson, sending follow-ups.
Um, a couple times during theyear, the client needed help on
um some other items and torespond quickly, be on top of
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the game, not ask for anything.
Yeah, it was too early, and tobe patient.
SPEAKER_01 (22:15):
Yeah.
Good for you.
I mean, I have been in thatsituation where you just have to
step back and go, there's no askright now.
Like I have to give, um, I haveto build the trust again.
So yeah.
That's right.
All right.
Um obviously you have been inLeader Impact for five years,
cohort in Texas.
Um you know we want to growpersonally, professionally, and
spiritually.
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So for impact.
So I'm wondering if you'rewilling to share us an example
of how the spiritual makes apractical difference in your
life as a leader.
SPEAKER_00 (22:45):
Leader impact definitely has had uh a huge
impact on me the past fiveyears.
Um, as a as a person that lovesscuba diving, the the one way I
look at it is that the leaderimpact groups are like fresh
oxygen.
And uh I I don't know if youknow number one rule in scuba
diving.
Do you happen to know what thenumber one rule is in scuba
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diving?
No.
unknown (23:08):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (23:10):
You probably shouldn't, yeah.
Um never never hold your breath.
Okay.
And you would think, oh yeah,but it the temptation is to hold
your breath when you'reunderwater, but you need to
constantly keep breathing.
And so we had uh I sat in on theAtlanta, one of the Atlanta
leader impact groups early thismorning at 6 a.m.
And just a really powerfulsession with these businessmen.
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And afterwards, I literallythought this is this is like
oxygen to me.
It's uh refreshing.
And whether it's uh joining alab in Belgium uh at one of the
anniversary um gatherings orgoing to Atlanta, meeting there,
hosting the kickoff, um, leaderimpact has had an impact on me
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these past five years.
Uh, Brene Brown, um, she talksabout connection.
Uh, connection's why we're here.
And uh we read this book in inone of the uh groups as well,
that it gives us purpose andmeaning.
So, from a spiritualperspective, to answer your
question, as leaders, we we haveto remember that the team we
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lead takes on the identity ofthe leader.
And I learned that from uh agood friend, Greg Vernovich.
He's an expeditioner, takesfolks on these big massive
hikes, as Dun Everest.
And um, he's he shared thatrecently in one of our groups,
and I thought that is so truethat in in John 8, Jesus talks
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about hey, I'm the light of theworld.
If you follow me, you'll neverwalk in darkness, but you'll
have the light of life.
SPEAKER_01 (24:52):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:53):
And so, yes, we have to be on top of our business
principles.
We have to be punctual, we haveto lead with confidence and
integrity.
But from a spiritualperspective, if we are following
God and his principles, we won'twalk in darkness.
We'll have clarity, we'll haveconfidence, his light will shine
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through us, and um we'll neverbe alone.
Leadership is lonely, as youknow, Lisa.
And um, with him there by ourside with us, it it makes a
world of difference.
SPEAKER_01 (25:27):
Yeah.
Uh great comment this morning.
I was just in our leader impact,and we're taking John Maxwell's
book, The 360 Degree Leader.
And we talked about modelingbehavior.
So, you know, part of leadingdown is um like you want them to
model your.
So, how are you acting, like tomodel your own behavior?
And it just went through theideas.
It was so good.
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Uh and and our team had somegreat conversations.
Uh, we've got some people whoare private enterprise, people
who are union, people who havefaith, people who don't have
faith.
We are a wit, a mixed group.
That's right.
So um, but I love that I want togo back to you.
You said you joined Atlantagroup.
So did you actually zoom in onanother Leader Impact group?
SPEAKER_00 (26:06):
Yes.
So I was introduced to uh LeaderImpact five years ago.
Uh going back to Shan Gastineau.
I've known Shan for a number ofyears, but we he had never
shared with me about LeaderImpact.
And when he first shared with mein 2019, I sort of blew it off.
And uh, you know, we go tochurch and uh I've got work and
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still chasing success and makingan impact on other people.
But the next year he shared withme, and I said, Well, do you
have one or two groups inAtlanta?
And I think at the time it waslike 11 or 12, and I thought,
okay, there's something to this.
unknown (26:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
The integration of professional, personal,
spiritual, and how do wemaximize that?
And um, so I thought, hey, let'sdo this.
It was 2020.
I was in the interviewingprocess, COVID had just started,
and I thought, I'll go ahead anddial in at 6 a.m.
and um see what this is allabout.
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And it just took off.
And uh just the relationshipbuilt with individuals that are
managers at bike stores,construction attorneys.
Um, and so I'm still part ofthat group.
There was a year that um Itransitioned off as we started
the Dallas group.
We have one that's been meetinguh here for the last three
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years, and uh so that that wasthe beginning, and it's worth
getting up an hour earlier.
SPEAKER_01 (27:29):
Yeah.
You have inspired me to checkout another group.
Like I have our I hope I run twovirtual groups.
Anyone can join, but eveninviting other leaders, say join
ours.
Like come in.
Because the conversations, youdon't, I mean, we do study
books, but you can be part ofthe conversation.
Um so I'm inviting you.
We have our Leader ImpactCanadian summit coming up in
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facts.
So maybe first to second, that'smy or first to third.
I've registered, got my carrented, I've got my hotel ready.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Great.
SPEAKER_01 (28:00):
Yes.
So I'm excited about that.
And invite anyone listening tocome join us.
Um all right.
One of our last questions isabout uh your lasting impact.
We know that as dedicatedleaders, we want to have a
lasting impact.
So we're wondering, as youcontinue to move through your
own journey, um, if you'veconsidered what you want your
faith legacy to be when youleave this world.
SPEAKER_00 (28:21):
Faith legacy.
Good friend Braden Douglas.
He's in fact part of our grouphere in uh in North Texas and
instrumental when we startedthree years ago.
Um in his book, Becoming aLeader of Impact, and this has
stuck with me, Lisa, since thefirst time I read it.
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He he talks about legacy andthat our legacy is the number of
people, it's so practical, thenumber of people that we impact,
and the length of time that theimpact lasts.
And when we talk about impact,he also highlights that this is
influence of others toperpetually positive behavior.
(29:07):
So as I think about legacy, Ithink how many people have I
been able to impact?
Have I taken advantage ofmoments to impact other people's
lives?
Yes, business-wise, but alsofrom a personal or spiritual
perspective.
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It's it's in that moment,Sunday, just two days ago, was
at the car wash.
This is Tim Time, drinking aDiet Coke, having a cracker.
And of all the tables, uh agentleman, very sharp dressed
African American businessman,came up and plopped down a bag,
um, uh like a man purse on thetable.
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And I didn't want to talk toanybody.
And uh, there's there's nobodyelse at the tables, Lisa.
And um he put the bag there andI looked up and cordial and
said, Hey, how are you doing?
Doing and um I don't think heknew he didn't think I was gonna
talk to him.
And he said, Well, I'm notreally doing good.
(30:09):
And I said, Tell me more.
That's the question that's not aquestion.
Tell me more.
You can always win with that insales, in personal interaction.
Tell me more.
And he said, Well, I havechronic pain in my uh heels, in
my legs.
I've had um heel replacements,and I'm in chronic pain.
(30:29):
He opened up his man purse andit was full of lotion and uh
medication, pain meds, and hejust shared the journey that
he's been through.
And he said, But this is uh, Ibelieve what God has me to
accept at this point.
And um I've just been throughtwo knee replacement surgeries
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in the past six months myself,and just coming out of therapy
and a lot of pain and managingpain.
And I was able to look up to himand not tell him that, but just
to share with him and say, youknow, in uh Isaiah, it talks
about uh God gives power to theweak and he gives strength to
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the powerless.
And and just left it at that.
And he said, I I needed to hearthat.
I needed to hear that.
This is this is a God ordainedat the car wash.
And um as I shared that withhim, I started to realize impact
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doesn't need a spotlight.
SPEAKER_01 (31:39):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Um it's a good story because I think you don't have
to have a spotlight, you don'thave to be in a church to make
an impact.
My my middle brother, I have twoawesome older brothers.
He reminds me hey, in in Romans,God's gifts and his call can
never be withdrawn.
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Your calling.
Each person we come in contactwith has a calling, has gifts
that God's given to them.
And it can't be withdrawn.
And so we've got to look forthose opportunities to share.
That legacy of having folks comeup at a wedding.
Tim, you had an impact on me 25years ago, and God changed my
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life, or our four daughterswanting to talk about spiritual
things.
Um, that's the legacy I'd liketo leave.
SPEAKER_01 (32:35):
Tim, that's fantastic.
I love listening to you.
And I I'm working very hard onmy Bible verse memory.
So I have an app that I've, it'scalled Bible Memory.
And I'm really practicing um, sowhen you tell a story, you just
bring up uh something from theBible.
I mean, that's just powerful.
And everything you bring up isso relatable.
So I it's like, yes, that is inthe Bible.
SPEAKER_00 (32:57):
Yeah, so you've inspired me.
It's it's intentional, a littlesecret.
Um, driving into work, I used tobe that person, and at times
still am to put on 106.1 or uhput on um different Christian
radio stations, etc., or talkshows or Air One, uh, but now
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try to be more disciplined.
There's an app called Lictio365.
And uh just remarkable, greatquality uh messaging there, or
just uh put on the scripture 20minutes, 45 minutes.
And um, if we if I don't do thatintentionally, then it doesn't
become part of who I am.
SPEAKER_01 (33:38):
Yeah, yeah, intentional.
Great word is you have to wehave to be intentional every
morning.
I do it.
Um so we had just going back, wehad Braden on our podcast.
I think he was number two, oneof our second guests.
He was, yeah.
He is awesome.
I've interviewed him a couple oftimes, but we're hoping to bring
him back.
So just you know, because I knewthat he moved down to Dallas and
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oh, I he is lovely, lovely man.
Um, my last question for you,Tim, is what brings you the
greatest joy?
SPEAKER_00 (34:07):
So there's different levels of joy, but um the first
one that comes to mind is I'm soimpressed with our daughters and
um our times of laughter.
They're adults now.
We have a couple grands, we havetwo uh soon to be arriving, uh,
another boy and a girl, but uhthe sense of humor, uh, the
(34:29):
wittiness, they love to abuse meand highlight my weaknesses and
errors.
Um, I remember a few years ago,and this has started to become
tradition during the holidays.
Uh, we have a group text, and apicture came over, and it was
four pictures of legs.
And it was their legs.
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And um they hadn't shaved forseveral weeks during the
holidays.
And uh their challenge was, Dad,can you select whose legs are
whose?
And um, laughter and abuse andum things like that.
That um greatest joy of, youknow, it's been said that
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success is that your kids wantto come back and they want to
listen to you and enjoy life,but we really enjoy life
together.
The the beautiful thing here,again, is is that I love them
and not because of what they'vedone, but because I love them
and uh believe in them.
That that's God's love for us.
(35:30):
Yeah, whatever we do, if we makea mistake today at work with a
stranger, that when we stand atthe end of the day, he still
loves us.
That's our identity.
That there's no one that we haveto impress.
Yeah.
Final comment was dropping mydad and mom off at the airport
and uh gave my dad a big hug,colonel in the Marine Corps,
(35:51):
real tough.
And he said to me, Enjoy life.
And I I pushed him back andyeah, thank you.
And he grabbed me again, and uhhe said, No, you really need to
enjoy life and be aware of that.
And so that that was a good wordfrom my dad.
It's important to enjoy.
SPEAKER_01 (36:10):
Yeah.
Um, for your daughters, uh, Ithink of, I mean, God asks us to
love our children.
That's he blessed us, he gavethem to us, he's asking us to
take care of them all on earth.
And we had a hockey coach once,and the hockey coach said to us,
uh, not in a well, a verybeautiful way, I will coach
them.
You love them.
(36:32):
You don't need to coach them.
When they are finished the game,and you good or bad, you only
get to say good.
Don't love them.
Yeah, I'll point out you lovethem.
SPEAKER_00 (36:41):
So it's so tempting to coach.
SPEAKER_01 (36:44):
Especially if you're good at hockey or good at
basketball or whatever you knowwas your thing.
That's right.
Just love them.
They get coaching.
SPEAKER_00 (36:52):
So that's right.
SPEAKER_01 (36:53):
Tim, I want to thank you for joining us uh these last
over half hour.
Um, you've inspired me to getback on my Bible app right now.
I already did it this morning,but it's like, I gotta learn
more.
I want to learn more.
So you've left an impact on me.
So if anyone's listening andthey would love to reach out to
you, find you, what is the bestway?
SPEAKER_00 (37:14):
Uh easiest way is on LinkedIn.
Okay.
And uh it's Tim Beecham.
Some might say Beauchamp, butit's uh Tim B-E-A-U-C-H-A-M-P.
SPEAKER_01 (37:25):
All right.
Well, thank you again.
It has been an absolute pleasurehaving you on the Leader Impact
Podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
Thank you, Lisa.
unknown (37:31):
You're welcome.
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I'm your host, Lisa Peters, andour guest today is Tim Beachum.
Tim is the Senior Director forSales Effectiveness at Frontier
Communications, the largest peerplay provider of fiber
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technology and services in theUnited States.
His team accelerates salesperformance through coaching,
training, and AI-driveninnovation.
Tim began his career infull-time ministry, but quickly
realized that God's calling forhim extended beyond the local
church into the marketplace.
As he's pursued this path, hehas seen God's hand guiding his
work and producing lastingimpact, confirming his true
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calling to lead, mentor, anddevelop people in business.
Known for his optimism,decisiveness, and ability to
build positive team cultures, hebrings enthusiasm to every
challenge.
He's been an active member ofthe Leader Impact community for
five years, helping establishthe North Texas cohort and
recently hosting the U.S.
Leader Impact season kickoff inChicago.
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Tim's wife, family with fourdaughters, is based in North
Texas and he's a raving fan oftrekking the Canadian Rockies,
scuba diving, and spending timewith his daughters.
Welcome to the show, Tim.
SPEAKER_00 (01:43):
Lisa, thank you so much.
It's great to be able to spend afew minutes with you.
SPEAKER_01 (01:48):
Well, I love you even more that you're a fan of
trekking, actually, raving fanof trekking the Canadian
Rockies.
SPEAKER_00 (01:56):
You know, some of our fondest memories with our
family, and we've done this fora number of years.
Uh, and it's typically inNovember.
Uh, a few years ago, we decided,hey, third week of November, uh,
those of you who are familiarwith the United States, we have
our Thanksgiving at that time.
And uh we decided, hey, we'regonna go up not only in the
summer to Alberta and do hikingand um uh water rapids and all
(02:20):
that during the summer, but inthe winter, um go up there in
Lake Louise and Canmore andBanff, etc., and do some winter
hiking, which is completelydifferent, as you know.
But a little funny story.
We learned quickly that the USThanksgiving is not the Canada
Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
And so the challenge was to find turkey on
Thanksgiving Day, which uh wewere not successful and still
have not been for a number ofyears, unless we go to a
restaurant.
And so we've settled forTurduccan.
Turduckan for our Thanksgivingmeal.
But but we love coming up toCanada and uh we'll continue to
do so in years to come.
SPEAKER_01 (03:01):
Ah, well, we love having you.
SPEAKER_00 (03:03):
Excellent.
SPEAKER_01 (03:04):
All right, well, we're gonna begin our podcast,
and we love hearing about yourprofessional story and how did
you get from where you are towhere you are today?
And mostly we want to hear aboutthose pivotal, if you have a
pivotal turning point along thatjourney.
SPEAKER_00 (03:16):
Absolutely.
So, two pivotable, pivotal,excuse me, turning points in uh
my business career.
The first, it makes me thinktoday at Frontier
Communications, where I'm uhcurrently in a leadership role,
when new hires come on board,the first thing that we
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communicate with them on theirfirst day is impact begins
today.
Impact begins today, and theyusually look up, they're trying
to process a lot of information,and we share with them it begins
today, not in four weeks, not intwo weeks, not in three days.
In fact, today, on your firstday, you will start prospecting
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and talking to strangers.
And impact doesn't have to be inthe spotlight either.
No one needs to know how manyhours you work, as far as over
the weekend, late into theevening, but the focus is on the
impact.
And we share this with them toshow them that we believe in
them.
And we've seen over and overagain that growth follows
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belief.
And so that makes me think of myfirst day as a salesperson.
I actually was here downtownDallas a number of years ago.
I had never been in sales and uhgot there early.
I'd never been downtown Dallas.
We lived in a suburb, and Iwalked into the office, it was
dark.
I saw a light in the back of theoffice and went to the back, and
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it was the break room.
And I turned the corner, had mynotepad, and there was a
gentleman that was actuallylaying on the table in the break
room, um, relaxing, which was, Ithought, strange.
And he sat up, red-eyed, alittle cloudy, looked like he
had had a fulfilling weekend, abusy weekend, and uh he hollered
(05:07):
at me and said, Who are you?
And that was my welcome intosales, my first day.
Lo and behold, he was the topsalesperson at that location.
Oh, see, what's highly unusualabout this is the week prior to
that, I was in full-timeministry at a church.
And so imagine going from threeyears of ministry, visiting
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people in hospitals, leadingeducation programs, music, and
suddenly downtown Dallas in abusiness environment, and that
was the warm welcome.
There's an individual, LarryCarter, that believed in me.
I had to step down from thatchurch because the senior pastor
at that time, unfortunately, hadbeen unfaithful in his personal
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life, and I couldn't remain atthat church in that environment.
So that started the beginning ofa sales career.
Larry hired me, he believed inme, and over the next 25 plus
years, the career took off froma business perspective.
And one of the things that Ilearned quickly was that my
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calling wasn't just to have animpact for those that are going
to church, but an impact in thebusiness world to be highly
successful, have an impact onnew hires, sales leaders.
And it makes me think of thatpassage in Matthew that talks
about if you're faithful withfew, you'll be ruler over many.
And so in the businessenvironment, I realized even in
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the downtimes that God was stillusing me to have an impact on
other people.
That's the first key turningpoint.
Fast forward 25 years, COVID andlooking up and realizing
restructuring in theorganization.
I had been in leadership roles,national accounts, regional
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director, national director, andsuddenly unemployed.
And so when I found this out, Ishared with my wife, Sharon, and
she was elated and wanted tohigh-five.
And this is the best thing thatcould happen to you.
Great opportunity.
What God might have for younext.
To me, I was crushed, Lisa.
(07:23):
And that sense of emptiness, andwithin 24 hours, to be taking
down the plaques and all thememories and all the uh quotas
that our teams had hit, thesuccessful results, and uh
quickly realized that within 24hours chasing success really
came up empty.
Yeah.
(07:43):
And um, so I dove right intointerviewing and uh within a few
days received a call from um aheadhunter, and the headhunter
um said, Hey, FrontierCommunications is looking for
this position, started theinterview process.
Now, here's the punchline.
Going through this wholeprocess, um, several interviews,
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and uh they communicated with meand said, We're gonna frame up
an opportunity for you, anoffer, and uh we're gonna go
ahead and send that to youwithin the next couple of days.
And within a couple days, Ireceived an email, and the email
said, Um, we want to thank youfor your interest in Frontier,
and we've decided to go adifferent direction.
(08:32):
And again, just crushed,thinking I did every everything
right.
And um, I got to that point tosay, Lord, if Frontier is not
the company for me to be at, Itrust you.
I I released that.
Yeah.
At the same time, I thought in 2Timothy it says, God has not
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given us a spirit of fear, butpower, love, and a sound mind.
So I called them back andreached out to our contact,
talked with James, said, James,obviously disappointed.
What can I do better?
And James said, What email?
We didn't send you an email.
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And I read it to him, and hesaid, That email was supposed to
go to somebody else.
In fact, your offer is comingright now.
unknown (09:24):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (09:24):
So that key turning point was letting go, trusting
in God, not having the spirit offear, being confident as a
business person, and reachingout, standing up, being firm.
God had a different plan.
And now the past five years havebeen a remarkable experience
here at French.
SPEAKER_01 (09:44):
And what if you never made that call?
SPEAKER_00 (09:47):
To think of it.
And and think of friends andfolks we come in contact with
that we can encourage to beconfident and um are in a
scenario where they think all islost, and it might just be one
step that they need to take.
SPEAKER_01 (10:00):
Yeah.
unknown (10:01):
Wow.
SPEAKER_01 (10:02):
Great stories.
I want to go back to the firstone.
When you show up at the office,your first job, sales job, and
the guy's laying on the table.
And because I I really like I'mwaiting for your pivotal moment,
and I'm thinking it's fromministry to a job.
Because many people think, youknow, to be Christian, I have to
have a Christian job orsomething.
(10:23):
Well, no, we we are marketplaceleaders.
So here you are, marketplaceleader.
And I think, was did you kind offeel this moment?
Is God calling me to ministerthis man?
Like here he is, right?
SPEAKER_00 (10:36):
He's yes.
First I was thinking, oh mygoodness, what have I gotten
myself into?
Yeah, my head's spinning.
Am I going to be able to dothis?
And once again, I'm thankful forLarry's belief in me that hey,
you are a salesperson, you cando this.
But um, yes, there is that senseof confusion.
You know, when we all get umoff-center, our head starts to,
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it happens to all of us, and wehave to come back to our
foundation.
And I think in 1 Peter 4:10, ittalks about um how each of you
should use whatever gift you'vereceived to serve others as
stewards of God's grace invarious forms.
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And so um, yes, there was thatconfusion.
Yes, to be an environment thatis not incubated like at church,
and um people talk differentways, don't use proper language,
um, not everyone's honest, andit's in business in general, and
uh, but that was the dooropening to be able to serve
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others and to be really asteward of God's grace.
SPEAKER_01 (11:44):
Yeah, that's a great story.
I I I loved it.
Thank you for sharing thatbecause I think we're all put in
those situations where we'relike, like truthfully, I look up
really God.
Is this is this what we'redoing?
Is this where you're putting metoday?
That's I asked for ways that Icould serve and then I get put
in this situation.
SPEAKER_00 (12:00):
Oh my god.
I I have a uh dear friend ShannGastoneau, and uh known him for
25 plus years.
Um and he says, on the way todoing something, I became
someone.
Oh that that's my lifeexperience.
And uh I think we'd be amazedthat most people are
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experiencing the same thing.
SPEAKER_01 (12:22):
Yeah.
Oh, that's a we had Shan on manypodcasts ago, and that is a
great, yeah, that's really good.
All right.
Well, we're gonna continue withour second question of your best
principle of success.
We would love to hear one.
And if you have a story thatillustrates that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:41):
Going back once again as a young salesperson,
there was an individual that wasuh successful sales leader, and
he came to our company and leddifferent training sessions.
His name was Ken Miller, and Kenis uh still alive today, and I
texted him a couple weeks ago,but this was over 30 years ago,
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and he led the standardstructured training that we had
to go through.
But the thing that came out withhim is that he believed in the
individuals that were in hisdifferent classes, and one of
the things he um did at the endof the session was he rolled out
um a concept of the commondenominator of success.
(13:24):
And it was actually written byAlbert Gray, and this goes back
to like 19.
I obviously was not alive at thetime, but um it was a
presentation that Albert Graygave back in 1935, 1940.
But the principles remain truestill today, they're key factors
that contribute to success inreally any endeavor.
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And um, the focus is on what isit that successful people do?
This is from a businessperspective, and that is that
she or he forms the habit ofdoing things that failures don't
like to do.
And he rolled that out at theend of the session.
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And as a young person, Ithought, okay, great, I want to
go back to my city, startcalling, make a lot of money.
And years later, almost 15 yearslater, I was going through a
file cabinet and uh found whathe had handed out and brought it
back and read it, and it startedto make sense that successful
people they don't necessarilylove the things that they have
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to do, the habits, but they'redriven by their purpose as the
engine that they're disciplinedenough to form those habits to
be successful.
And so, once again, here for thepast few years, when someone, in
fact, I have a copy of it here,can get it on Amazon.
It's an easy, easy read.
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Um, we introduce this to thosethat come on board.
And we remind them and walk themthrough how important it is that
when you feel like yourpipeline's not growing, when
you're not hitting your numbers,if your customers are not
pleased, um, we talk to themabout TNT.
Takes no talent.
You should be on time, youshould work hard, you should be
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honest, diligent.
All of those are the basics, butyou should form habits that will
help you drive a healthypipeline.
A mentor here, one of our seniorvice presidents, Joe Pelloteri,
says a high healthy pipelinedrives predictable revenue
growth.
And as leaders, our role is toexpose areas that need
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discipline to create habits.
And so creating habits.
unknown (15:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:39):
That falls into our personal life, Lisa, as well.
Yeah.
What is it that maybe we don'tlike?
And it's so much easier toabsorb the pain of missing our
goal than to be disciplined andcreating those couple habits
together.
SPEAKER_01 (15:56):
Um I'm gonna repeat that book.
It was Common Denominator ofSuccess by Albert Gray.
Yes.
I gotta look that up.
Yeah.
Some of those, those are theclassics.
There are some great classics.
Um, as you were speaking, andI'm thinking, what is it
successful people do?
And there was an interview wedid, and it was Cindy Claussen,
and she talked about the goldmedal and the treasures we have
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on Earth.
So I think of when you lost yourjob and you were packing up all
those medals and all thoseplaques and everything, they
mean they mean nothing.
Um they do, they're they'regreat, you won them, yay, but
it's she talked about her medal,and it's starting to um uh
oxidize, and you know, like it'sa gold medal.
It's you know, and she has fivefrom one Olympics.
SPEAKER_00 (16:38):
Amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:39):
Those are the treasures on earth, and they
will they don't mean anything.
They they didn't, you know, youlost your job.
You you you like how brilliantthat is uh of a statement that
it's not about the treasures wegather on earth.
SPEAKER_00 (16:53):
It's you know the interesting thing is I believe
that happens to the majority ofindividuals that are in in
business, and that can be a homebusiness, it could be a big
corporate business like this.
But the the interesting thing isif you've made an impact on
other individuals, that comesback to you.
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A lot of times it's years laterwhen individuals come up to you,
say, Lisa, that podcast from2022 with uh Ryan Walters that
made an impact on my life.
It did with me, listening to itwhat, three, four years ago.
Remember listening to that abouthunger and uh made an impact in
my life.
But um, it's not the trophies,certificates, it's the impact we
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had on other people.
SPEAKER_01 (17:39):
Yeah.
I'm currently preparing akeynote on uh the ripple of one
person.
And that and it's it's for agroup of volunteers, but talking
about the leadership that theyprovide, because you never know
who you will affect two years,you know, and someone comes up
to me and said, Remember, yousaid that to me, I saw that, I
you know, yeah.
So great story, thank you forsharing.
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Um you kind of mentioned aboutlearning more from our failures,
you you know, what successfulpeople do, they they you know,
I'm learning from our failures,like they they take them as
we'll learn.
So if you have one, a failure, amistake that has happened,
because we know we learn more.
We we learn more than that fromour own successes.
So if you have one and a storyto share.
SPEAKER_00 (18:19):
Absolutely.
Failures qualify us to beleaders.
Uh, in Henry Cloud's book, uh,in one of our leader impact
groups, we've read uh Integrity.
And in there, he talks aboutcoaching some young gentlemen,
uh, some brothers, and uhcoaches them on as they're
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entering into life, going off tocollege, and talks about three
things.
Uh, you need to be exceptional,exceptional in your trade, what
you do, full of integrity, andthen also building alliances
across the business and outsideof the business.
Um, if we slip in any of thoseareas, it can definitely impact
(19:01):
our outcome.
Exceptional in trade meaningstaying disciplined, studying,
being the best every day, notresting uh on our laurels when
we need to be the best that wecan.
I remember we had secured ameeting with the CIO of a
municipality here in Texas thistime, and uh quite an
opportunity.
And so, in our pre-call with theclient, the client was very
(19:26):
direct and saying, Tim, here arethe things I'd like you to
cover, here are our challenges.
Um, I look forward to hearingyour proposal and solution with
your team.
And I at the time was doing verywell, a little cocky, and uh, we
didn't prepare as we should.
And we did a little bit ofpre-call planning, but went into
(19:48):
the meeting, sort of winging it,didn't have an agenda, and um,
it went south quickly.
And Bernie had uh was retiredmilitary before he had been in
this position, and he didn'tpull any punches in the meeting,
and the meeting did not go well.
And I realized, man,immediately, who can I point the
finger at?
(20:10):
The next day Bernie called me,and I remember specifically him
saying, Tim, you can do betterthan this.
Wow.
A year later, he finallyaccepted another meeting.
We were prepared.
Yeah, it took a year askingforgiveness, being prepared, me
(20:33):
asking forgiveness of the teamthat man, I missed the mark in
preparation.
We were able to close thebusiness.
Bernie recently sent a picture,a text of grandchild
relationship completely changednow.
But that was a that was a toughlesson.
That was a that was a failure.
My my mom used to say she was amusician.
(20:56):
Music or life is like a piano.
You get out of it depends onwhat you get out of it depends
on how you play it.
And uh that one that one was notplayed well.
SPEAKER_01 (21:08):
Yeah.
So I have to ask, in that yearthat you were, you know, um
reflecting, what did you did youdo anything for the client in
that year?
Did you, you know, send reportsand say, hey, I thought of you?
Um, I uh just did you think ofthe client in the year?
Did you share?
Did you I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (21:28):
We did.
We continued to follow up, um,continued to share with uh the
client about our expansion inthat area.
Um this municipality is uh asizable municipality next to a
very large university, uh veryprominent university.
And so we knew the ramificationsof the ripple effect that word
(21:49):
travels, uh, that if there's uha poor proposal, uh to be
cautious that would spread withother clientele, uh, making
efforts to go and try to meet inperson, sending follow-ups.
Um, a couple times during theyear, the client needed help on
um some other items and torespond quickly, be on top of
(22:09):
the game, not ask for anything.
Yeah, it was too early, and tobe patient.
SPEAKER_01 (22:15):
Yeah.
Good for you.
I mean, I have been in thatsituation where you just have to
step back and go, there's no askright now.
Like I have to give, um, I haveto build the trust again.
So yeah.
That's right.
All right.
Um obviously you have been inLeader Impact for five years,
cohort in Texas.
Um you know we want to growpersonally, professionally, and
spiritually.
(22:36):
So for impact.
So I'm wondering if you'rewilling to share us an example
of how the spiritual makes apractical difference in your
life as a leader.
SPEAKER_00 (22:45):
Leader impact definitely has had uh a huge
impact on me the past fiveyears.
Um, as a as a person that lovesscuba diving, the the one way I
look at it is that the leaderimpact groups are like fresh
oxygen.
And uh I I don't know if youknow number one rule in scuba
diving.
Do you happen to know what thenumber one rule is in scuba
(23:07):
diving?
No.
unknown (23:08):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (23:10):
You probably shouldn't, yeah.
Um never never hold your breath.
Okay.
And you would think, oh yeah,but it the temptation is to hold
your breath when you'reunderwater, but you need to
constantly keep breathing.
And so we had uh I sat in on theAtlanta, one of the Atlanta
leader impact groups early thismorning at 6 a.m.
And just a really powerfulsession with these businessmen.
(23:35):
And afterwards, I literallythought this is this is like
oxygen to me.
It's uh refreshing.
And whether it's uh joining alab in Belgium uh at one of the
anniversary um gatherings orgoing to Atlanta, meeting there,
hosting the kickoff, um, leaderimpact has had an impact on me
(23:56):
these past five years.
Uh, Brene Brown, um, she talksabout connection.
Uh, connection's why we're here.
And uh we read this book in inone of the uh groups as well,
that it gives us purpose andmeaning.
So, from a spiritualperspective, to answer your
question, as leaders, we we haveto remember that the team we
(24:18):
lead takes on the identity ofthe leader.
And I learned that from uh agood friend, Greg Vernovich.
He's an expeditioner, takesfolks on these big massive
hikes, as Dun Everest.
And um, he's he shared thatrecently in one of our groups,
and I thought that is so truethat in in John 8, Jesus talks
(24:42):
about hey, I'm the light of theworld.
If you follow me, you'll neverwalk in darkness, but you'll
have the light of life.
SPEAKER_01 (24:52):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:53):
And so, yes, we have to be on top of our business
principles.
We have to be punctual, we haveto lead with confidence and
integrity.
But from a spiritualperspective, if we are following
God and his principles, we won'twalk in darkness.
We'll have clarity, we'll haveconfidence, his light will shine
(25:14):
through us, and um we'll neverbe alone.
Leadership is lonely, as youknow, Lisa.
And um, with him there by ourside with us, it it makes a
world of difference.
SPEAKER_01 (25:27):
Yeah.
Uh great comment this morning.
I was just in our leader impact,and we're taking John Maxwell's
book, The 360 Degree Leader.
And we talked about modelingbehavior.
So, you know, part of leadingdown is um like you want them to
model your.
So, how are you acting, like tomodel your own behavior?
And it just went through theideas.
It was so good.
(25:47):
Uh and and our team had somegreat conversations.
Uh, we've got some people whoare private enterprise, people
who are union, people who havefaith, people who don't have
faith.
We are a wit, a mixed group.
That's right.
So um, but I love that I want togo back to you.
You said you joined Atlantagroup.
So did you actually zoom in onanother Leader Impact group?
SPEAKER_00 (26:06):
Yes.
So I was introduced to uh LeaderImpact five years ago.
Uh going back to Shan Gastineau.
I've known Shan for a number ofyears, but we he had never
shared with me about LeaderImpact.
And when he first shared with mein 2019, I sort of blew it off.
And uh, you know, we go tochurch and uh I've got work and
(26:27):
still chasing success and makingan impact on other people.
But the next year he shared withme, and I said, Well, do you
have one or two groups inAtlanta?
And I think at the time it waslike 11 or 12, and I thought,
okay, there's something to this.
unknown (26:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
The integration of professional, personal,
spiritual, and how do wemaximize that?
And um, so I thought, hey, let'sdo this.
It was 2020.
I was in the interviewingprocess, COVID had just started,
and I thought, I'll go ahead anddial in at 6 a.m.
and um see what this is allabout.
(27:03):
And it just took off.
And uh just the relationshipbuilt with individuals that are
managers at bike stores,construction attorneys.
Um, and so I'm still part ofthat group.
There was a year that um Itransitioned off as we started
the Dallas group.
We have one that's been meetinguh here for the last three
(27:24):
years, and uh so that that wasthe beginning, and it's worth
getting up an hour earlier.
SPEAKER_01 (27:29):
Yeah.
You have inspired me to checkout another group.
Like I have our I hope I run twovirtual groups.
Anyone can join, but eveninviting other leaders, say join
ours.
Like come in.
Because the conversations, youdon't, I mean, we do study
books, but you can be part ofthe conversation.
Um so I'm inviting you.
We have our Leader ImpactCanadian summit coming up in
(27:51):
facts.
So maybe first to second, that'smy or first to third.
I've registered, got my carrented, I've got my hotel ready.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Great.
SPEAKER_01 (28:00):
Yes.
So I'm excited about that.
And invite anyone listening tocome join us.
Um all right.
One of our last questions isabout uh your lasting impact.
We know that as dedicatedleaders, we want to have a
lasting impact.
So we're wondering, as youcontinue to move through your
own journey, um, if you'veconsidered what you want your
faith legacy to be when youleave this world.
SPEAKER_00 (28:21):
Faith legacy.
Good friend Braden Douglas.
He's in fact part of our grouphere in uh in North Texas and
instrumental when we startedthree years ago.
Um in his book, Becoming aLeader of Impact, and this has
stuck with me, Lisa, since thefirst time I read it.
(28:42):
He he talks about legacy andthat our legacy is the number of
people, it's so practical, thenumber of people that we impact,
and the length of time that theimpact lasts.
And when we talk about impact,he also highlights that this is
influence of others toperpetually positive behavior.
(29:07):
So as I think about legacy, Ithink how many people have I
been able to impact?
Have I taken advantage ofmoments to impact other people's
lives?
Yes, business-wise, but alsofrom a personal or spiritual
perspective.
(29:27):
It's it's in that moment,Sunday, just two days ago, was
at the car wash.
This is Tim Time, drinking aDiet Coke, having a cracker.
And of all the tables, uh agentleman, very sharp dressed
African American businessman,came up and plopped down a bag,
um, uh like a man purse on thetable.
(29:48):
And I didn't want to talk toanybody.
And uh, there's there's nobodyelse at the tables, Lisa.
And um he put the bag there andI looked up and cordial and
said, Hey, how are you doing?
Doing and um I don't think heknew he didn't think I was gonna
talk to him.
And he said, Well, I'm notreally doing good.
(30:09):
And I said, Tell me more.
That's the question that's not aquestion.
Tell me more.
You can always win with that insales, in personal interaction.
Tell me more.
And he said, Well, I havechronic pain in my uh heels, in
my legs.
I've had um heel replacements,and I'm in chronic pain.
(30:29):
He opened up his man purse andit was full of lotion and uh
medication, pain meds, and hejust shared the journey that
he's been through.
And he said, But this is uh, Ibelieve what God has me to
accept at this point.
And um I've just been throughtwo knee replacement surgeries
(30:52):
in the past six months myself,and just coming out of therapy
and a lot of pain and managingpain.
And I was able to look up to himand not tell him that, but just
to share with him and say, youknow, in uh Isaiah, it talks
about uh God gives power to theweak and he gives strength to
(31:15):
the powerless.
And and just left it at that.
And he said, I I needed to hearthat.
I needed to hear that.
This is this is a God ordainedat the car wash.
And um as I shared that withhim, I started to realize impact
(31:35):
doesn't need a spotlight.
SPEAKER_01 (31:39):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Um it's a good story because I think you don't have
to have a spotlight, you don'thave to be in a church to make
an impact.
My my middle brother, I have twoawesome older brothers.
He reminds me hey, in in Romans,God's gifts and his call can
never be withdrawn.
(32:02):
Your calling.
Each person we come in contactwith has a calling, has gifts
that God's given to them.
And it can't be withdrawn.
And so we've got to look forthose opportunities to share.
That legacy of having folks comeup at a wedding.
Tim, you had an impact on me 25years ago, and God changed my
(32:26):
life, or our four daughterswanting to talk about spiritual
things.
Um, that's the legacy I'd liketo leave.
SPEAKER_01 (32:35):
Tim, that's fantastic.
I love listening to you.
And I I'm working very hard onmy Bible verse memory.
So I have an app that I've, it'scalled Bible Memory.
And I'm really practicing um, sowhen you tell a story, you just
bring up uh something from theBible.
I mean, that's just powerful.
And everything you bring up isso relatable.
So I it's like, yes, that is inthe Bible.
SPEAKER_00 (32:57):
Yeah, so you've inspired me.
It's it's intentional, a littlesecret.
Um, driving into work, I used tobe that person, and at times
still am to put on 106.1 or uhput on um different Christian
radio stations, etc., or talkshows or Air One, uh, but now
(33:19):
try to be more disciplined.
There's an app called Lictio365.
And uh just remarkable, greatquality uh messaging there, or
just uh put on the scripture 20minutes, 45 minutes.
And um, if we if I don't do thatintentionally, then it doesn't
become part of who I am.
SPEAKER_01 (33:38):
Yeah, yeah, intentional.
Great word is you have to wehave to be intentional every
morning.
I do it.
Um so we had just going back, wehad Braden on our podcast.
I think he was number two, oneof our second guests.
He was, yeah.
He is awesome.
I've interviewed him a couple oftimes, but we're hoping to bring
him back.
So just you know, because I knewthat he moved down to Dallas and
(34:00):
oh, I he is lovely, lovely man.
Um, my last question for you,Tim, is what brings you the
greatest joy?
SPEAKER_00 (34:07):
So there's different levels of joy, but um the first
one that comes to mind is I'm soimpressed with our daughters and
um our times of laughter.
They're adults now.
We have a couple grands, we havetwo uh soon to be arriving, uh,
another boy and a girl, but uhthe sense of humor, uh, the
(34:29):
wittiness, they love to abuse meand highlight my weaknesses and
errors.
Um, I remember a few years ago,and this has started to become
tradition during the holidays.
Uh, we have a group text, and apicture came over, and it was
four pictures of legs.
And it was their legs.
(34:50):
And um they hadn't shaved forseveral weeks during the
holidays.
And uh their challenge was, Dad,can you select whose legs are
whose?
And um, laughter and abuse andum things like that.
That um greatest joy of, youknow, it's been said that
(35:10):
success is that your kids wantto come back and they want to
listen to you and enjoy life,but we really enjoy life
together.
The the beautiful thing here,again, is is that I love them
and not because of what they'vedone, but because I love them
and uh believe in them.
That that's God's love for us.
(35:30):
Yeah, whatever we do, if we makea mistake today at work with a
stranger, that when we stand atthe end of the day, he still
loves us.
That's our identity.
That there's no one that we haveto impress.
Yeah.
Final comment was dropping mydad and mom off at the airport
and uh gave my dad a big hug,colonel in the Marine Corps,
(35:51):
real tough.
And he said to me, Enjoy life.
And I I pushed him back andyeah, thank you.
And he grabbed me again, and uhhe said, No, you really need to
enjoy life and be aware of that.
And so that that was a good wordfrom my dad.
It's important to enjoy.
SPEAKER_01 (36:10):
Yeah.
Um, for your daughters, uh, Ithink of, I mean, God asks us to
love our children.
That's he blessed us, he gavethem to us, he's asking us to
take care of them all on earth.
And we had a hockey coach once,and the hockey coach said to us,
uh, not in a well, a verybeautiful way, I will coach
them.
You love them.
(36:32):
You don't need to coach them.
When they are finished the game,and you good or bad, you only
get to say good.
Don't love them.
Yeah, I'll point out you lovethem.
SPEAKER_00 (36:41):
So it's so tempting to coach.
SPEAKER_01 (36:44):
Especially if you're good at hockey or good at
basketball or whatever you knowwas your thing.
That's right.
Just love them.
They get coaching.
SPEAKER_00 (36:52):
So that's right.
SPEAKER_01 (36:53):
Tim, I want to thank you for joining us uh these last
over half hour.
Um, you've inspired me to getback on my Bible app right now.
I already did it this morning,but it's like, I gotta learn
more.
I want to learn more.
So you've left an impact on me.
So if anyone's listening andthey would love to reach out to
you, find you, what is the bestway?
SPEAKER_00 (37:14):
Uh easiest way is on LinkedIn.
Okay.
And uh it's Tim Beecham.
Some might say Beauchamp, butit's uh Tim B-E-A-U-C-H-A-M-P.
SPEAKER_01 (37:25):
All right.
Well, thank you again.
It has been an absolute pleasurehaving you on the Leader Impact
Podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
Thank you, Lisa.
unknown (37:31):
You're welcome.
SPEAKER_01 (37:32):
All right.
Well, I want to thank all ourlisteners for joining us.
If you're part of Leader Impact,you can always discuss or share
this podcast with your group.
And if you are not yet part ofLeader Impact and would like to
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You can also check out groupsavailable in Canada at
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Or if you're listening fromanywhere else in the world,
check out our LeaderImpact.comor get in touch with us by email
(37:55):
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