June 4, 2024 • 32 mins
Do you wonder why so many adults are pivoting careers? Are you wondering why this trend is happening in the workplace today?
Listen in to this week as Sonia interviews Bryan Hill, a former teacher turned business owner who discusses the importance of students identifying their purpose or 'why.' Together they explore how understanding one's passions and motivations can guide career and college choices. Bryan shares his background and experiences, emphasizing the significance of human connections, networking, and reflecting on personal successes to help students and parents. They also discuss the Cup of Joey initiative, a community networking group focused on personal stories and human connection.
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Bryan (00:00):
Hi, I'm Brian Hill and you're listening to the College
(00:02):
and Career Ready podcast.
Sonia (00:38):
All right.
Welcome everyone.
Welcome to the college andcareer ready podcast.
Today on our podcast, we haveBrian Hill and Brian and I met,
maybe what two months ago at acup of Joey in Houston, Texas.
We connected immediately becausewe were both very passionate
about speaking about studentsidentifying their why and their
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purpose and their mission foranything else before we start
talking about college and andtheir future is really what's in
their heart.
So welcome, Brian.
Welcome to the College andCommunity podcast.
Thank you for being here with ustoday.
Bryan (01:13):
Tanya, thank you very much.
And I am extremely honored to behere.
It's a privilege to be on a showlike this and be able to share
any kind of knowledge with any,uh, any listener or anyone
that's interested.
Sonia (01:25):
Why don't you introduce yourself to us and tell us a
little bit about yourbackground?
Bryan (01:31):
Yeah.
So first and foremost, I'm afather of three.
I've got two kids that aregraduating twins.
They're graduating this year.
And trying to figure out and getthem to college.
my career started, it's funny.
I was a teacher for 20 years,but it took five for somebody to
talk me into getting intoteaching.
And I love it.
Yeah.
I loved it and would have stayedin the teaching, um, but I
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needed something to challengeme.
So my background, I went intosales, had an opportunity in
sales, business development, hadan opportunity a couple of years
ago to start my own businessaround sustainability.
What I've learned is the valuethat I've gotten from this has
been And now I understand kids.
Now I understand the adults andthe career path that they have.
(02:13):
Being able to tie them in isthis thing that I, this desire,
this passion that I've all of asudden found in my elder years,
if you will.
Sonia (02:21):
Yeah, that's awesome.
And, one thing that I love isyour education background and
then also being out, you know,in the workforce.
Can you share with us a littlebit about what led you to
helping students identify theirwhy now that you're out in
education?
Like, what makes you want toreel that back in?
Bryan (02:43):
it's so funny.
The, um, when we started goingto the cup of Joey, the, the
energy and the understanding ofhow to have a conversation with
somebody took it from a verytransactional deal to a very
transitional deal, which meantto me, well, you can make an
impact on people and the, thecommunity around you.
(03:04):
So end of last year.
I sat down with a, uh, an EDPlunch in here in the woodlands.
And I listened to MarioCastillo, who was in, uh, who
was just brand new chancellor atLongstar Community College.
And he did a great job ofunderstanding or explaining how
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kids were not coming to school.
And the stat that he threw outis that 55 percent of his
incoming freshmen would comeback for their second semester.
What it did was because of myunderstanding of purpose and why
it, what it did was help me tostart looking at what the kids
did, where we're missing.
Cause I'm in the Woodlands andthis area in Montgomery County
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has phenomenal kids and aphenomenal education system, but
there's still a lot that we'remissing.
So I started looking at the kidsand what are they missing?
It's purpose.
They don't understand how todrive.
And I sat down with, uh, Andrewat Cup of Joey, like, a month
later, and we did an, a why, um,it's a, it's like a why test or
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why examination.
And it took 25 minutes.
You don't need this, but I didthis just because he wanted me,
he knew what we were working onhere.
And he said, just take this andlet's have a conversation about
it.
It took 20 minutes.
When I was done, he showed mewhat it put out, and I went, Oh
my gosh, that's me.
It's not that I didn't know whoI was, but it allowed me to
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explain who I was, what mypurpose and connect what I felt
inside to the X, the outsideworld and created a passion.
Those two events led to just thehistory of me being around my
own kids, constantly coachingand being around kids for the
last 27 years.
To go, wait a second.
There's something that we canbuild here and put together that
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would help kids understand howto connect with their purpose
and drive the rest of their lifeand their career path.
Sonia (05:03):
That is amazing.
And, it's funny you, youmentioned that because my own,
um, course.
I actually took it myself and itwas, it's so like I can
literally sit here and say, Iknow what my personal values
are.
It's family, education,community and service.
and before taking my own course,couldn't really define that.
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I need parts and pieces of it.
And one of the things that, youknow, that I share now, knowing
now what I know is that based onthat is how you make your career
choices in your careerdecisions.
So that makes it a heck no or aheck yes.
When you are confronted withopportunities, your career, your
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personal life, um, it's, it'spretty simple.
It makes it, you know, black andwhite.
There's no gray because you knowwho you are and it's so
fundamental because in theeducation system, we're talking
about science and math andacademics and GPA, oh my gosh,
the conversations around GPA andgrades and tell me how many
times have you been on aninterview now, you know, they
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asked you.
It's your GPA.
Bryan (06:14):
It's funny because it's, it's, I think I took it off my
resume about five years ago.
Um, and it's, you know, peopledo, do, they don't ask you, they
just ask you, do you have adegree?
They don't ask you what your GPAis.
And it's funny what they ask youis what's your achievements.
Um, and what I'm starting to seein a trend is, uh, they take,
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once they get past your resume.
Is do you fit in with thecompany?
How do you fit in with thecompany?
Do you match what we are doing?
And because they're alsostarting to see a large turnover
in careers Uh very quickly andthey're trying to find something
to keep our youth focused
Sonia (06:53):
Yes, absolutely.
And our Gen C's are, it's, it'sa very particular group because
they're very passionate.
However, a lot of people willmislabel them by saying, Oh,
they're not motivated No, it'snot that.
It's that they really have to bepassionate about something.
Something they really have tobelieve in something in order to
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give it, The 100 that it'srequired, you know or more now
when they find what they're goodat when they find what their
passion Oh my goodness y'allbetter watch out because the gen
z's are on fire
Bryan (07:26):
with the networking group of Cup of Joey and some of the
other opportunities I've had,I've run across several of my
former students and, um, to seewhere they were in high school
and who they were and who theyare now as young adults is
amazing.
And their passion is completelydifferent than it is, or at
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least express different.
But it was still the same backthen.
They just didn't know what itwas.
And now it's driving them to be,you know, one was a doctor of
chiropractic that I met.
Um, another one is leading a,uh, one of our chamber of
commerce up here.
He's the president and thedirector up here.
Which is amazing to see thesestudents, who you would have
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never guessed, that are doinggreat things.
Based on passion.
Based on why?
Because they found it once theyfound it, they went, I'm gone.
Sonia (08:19):
Yes.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Y'all be careful because oncethey find their why, their
purpose, they're going to be onit 100%.
So go ahead and share with us.
How can students identify theirwhy in high school?
Bryan (08:33):
Yeah, that's a great question.
So one of the, um, I don't knowthat there is a lot of
opportunity in schools rightnow.
I think just being able to findthe tools to separate them one
from technology so that they canhave that downtime, that time to
where they can explore.
Um, who they are and find outwhat really connects them.
(08:55):
Now if you're looking at yourpurpose or what's driven and you
want to tie that into a careerpath I think being exposed to
people and their stories It'snot how much money i'm going to
make but it's more about What'syour path?
How did you get there?
Um, what's driving you?
What connected you?
And then when you have thosetypes of conversations, kids
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included, it's to me as early asseventh grade on, when they have
those conversations then theystart exploring who they are and
what they stand for.
Um, our schools do a great jobof Our basic four and they do
let kids choose what directionthey want to go.
(09:37):
But where I think we can getbetter is.
Give them some information sothey can choose better.
And I don't know that we dothat.
I think there's an opportunityfor growth there.
Sonia (09:46):
Absolutely.
And, and, you know, I think 1 ofthe reasons why, why no pun
intended, um, it's because, forexample, in my course, there's a
lot of self reflection.
We really need to take a stepback.
And instead of like, hearingeverything that's coming at you.
You need to just stop andreflect.
(10:07):
And so there is a lot ofreflective questions that,
unfortunately, maybe theeducation system is just, it's
more traditional, right?
Then the really self discoveryand the ability to hire to ask
your parents what when I wasyoung, what was it that, Got me
going.
What was it that made me, um,you know, excited.
(10:28):
So tell you a funny story.
my son to have twins and my son,when he was little, he, he was
one to two years old and we hada wagon and one of those, you
know, to take out to the park,we had it inside because they
wouldn't play with it.
And one day he gets under thewagon and he just starts moving
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the tires.
And I can tell that at that age,he wanted to know how does this
work?
How does this function?
So guess what?
That story is going in hisjournal because I want him as
he's exploring careers, I wanthim to reflect on those moments
where he was very inquisitive.
And he actually even managed toflip the wagon because he just
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wanted to know how does thiswagon work?
How does it Function and, youknow, as they get older, as they
start going to school and theystart doing all the, all the,
the fourth, they start losingthat connection with themselves.
What really motivates them.
Bryan (11:30):
Yeah.
And I think to add to that, oneof the things that kids can do
and parents can help them do isto kind of reflect on the last
few times that they weresuccessful.
What did you do?
What?
That was very successfulrecently.
Let them reflect.
In there somewhere is aconnection of purpose or
connection of why now over timeas we get older, you narrow
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down.
You don't need to do that asmuch.
Same thing with them, but forthem, maybe you start in 7th
grade and you just kind ofperiodically do that.
By the time they're seniors,they are really connected
because once they start to seethat come up over and over and
over.
You start to go.
Wait a second.
That's me.
(12:13):
It will help them to understandand make better decisions
because they can say no whenthey want to say no, they can
have the confidence to say yeswhen they have.
Yes.
And I think that's one of thethings that parents can do
simply to help kids is what areyou doing now?
That's successful.
Let's look at how did you getthrough that briefly?
Let's not go in depth andanalyze it just briefly and help
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them out.
Mhm.
Sonia (12:36):
Absolutely.
And that's the same thing withprojects at school, you know,
team, teamwork, team projects.
What is it that your childreally enjoys the most?
Because guess what?
In a company, there is not oneperson that can do every single
function in a company.
There's people who arespecialized in different areas,
and that's what we have toreally take a step back and and
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really reframe that becausewe're so our students are so
used to believing that they haveto be good at everything, and
rather, we've got to figure outwhat they are good at themselves
personally and what they'rereally inspired by right love
that.
okay.
So how can identifying astudent's why help them better
for college and career?
(13:20):
I know, I know there's a lot wetalked about already, but how
can we connect the dots?
How does why and the purposeconnect with college and career
readiness?
Bryan (13:29):
Yeah, so once you know your why, once a kid knows his
why or her why, and they're ableto understand how to express it,
or at least be close enough tounderstand it.
When you start looking atunderstanding what a career is
and connecting to that, I thinkit'll help them make better
decisions.
(13:50):
Several ways that you can dothat.
One, you can just simply doresearch online, but I think if
you can find a better way toimmerse yourself.
Because where we get lost isusually in the day to day.
If I can find where my whyconnects to this career, the day
to day kind of goes away and itbecomes more of a joy, then, oh
my goodness, I got to get up andgo to work today.
(14:11):
And I think a lot of our kids,several of our kids I've talked
to already, um, are changingjobs early on after a couple of
years, simply because theymissed that connection and
they're prepared for the jobthey're prepared for, but they
get out there and go, wait asecond.
My day to day is different thanwhat I expected, or this is not
what I expected.
(14:31):
So I think what the biggestthing is ask stories, talk to
people that are doing it anddon't ask them how much they get
paid, focus on what drove them.
When you're talking to abusiness, focus on what is that
business or what is that careerpath?
What.
What is the connector?
What is the passion?
What is the purpose of thatbusiness?
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When you understand that, thenyou can start gravitating
towards it if it matches whatyou feel.
Sonia (15:01):
I love that because even within the same industry, each
Company has different missionsin different purposes.
So it might be that someone isin the right field in the right
job, but maybe the company'smission or purposes is a little
different than what their ownis.
So if they start discoveringthat there are companies out
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there in the same field that aremore aligned with their passion,
they're going to be, um, betteremployee, and they're going to
be performed a lot betterbecause they feel that they're.
They're part of a biggermission, a bigger purpose than
just your day to day job.
Bryan (15:37):
Yeah, and I think a lot of the kids today, as you said
earlier, that was drive, you tapinto that passion, they are more
committed.
So they understand that it's notabout reading, writing, and
arithmetic.
It really is.
Where can I add value and eachone of us have a different
purpose and each one of us havea different why so if you can
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find that team where I fit thiswhy the company matches my why,
but my why compliments theperson next to me or the people
I work with, then you're workingfor a team now you have a
passion and you're tapped intosomething that you can do for a
long period of time.
Sonia (16:15):
I love that.
And we're going to be savingmoney in college, spending
unnecessary costs in the careerthat's just not aligned with us.
And we're going to save themfrom career pivots that we hear
so much, you know, and I thinkafter the pandemic, people
really started questioning theirday to day job.
They really started questioningwhat's their biggest, biggest
purpose in life.
(16:36):
I think that's the shift thatwe're all encountering that Our
youth is encountering and that'swhy we're having this big shift
and career pivots out in theworkforce that a lot of our
students probably don't know.
And that's when we are trying tohelp prevent that in the future.
Bryan (16:51):
Right?
Absolutely.
And I think the connectionpiece, I think the other thing
that kids can do and that I've.
Really encourage them,especially with a cup of joey
group.
We have, I think, getting outthere and talking to people and
getting into a network or aconnection type setting to where
they can really understand thattype of conversation.
A lot of times we are, our kidsare locked into their own world
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or their own click and beingable to get into an adult
situation or a young adultsituation where they can ask
questions.
How did you grow?
How did you do this?
Um, is important, but just verycasual.
It doesn't have to be aninterview.
It's just really a connectionpiece.
And that's what we're kind of,we kind of need to grow to help
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grow the passion is thatconnection.
I spoke with a gentleman.
Um, he was in sales.
I spoke with him and I just, Ialways like asking people their
story.
And I asked him, I said, tell meabout, how did you get into what
you're doing?
He goes, Unique story.
I went to junior college cause Ialways wanted to be a vet.
So I went to junior college fora year and I studied my, my
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undergraduate stuff.
And then I transferred to AMM.
And after two years, I looked atgoing into an internship and I
started interviewing and I foundout how much they made, what
they did.
This guy had spent 60, 000,three years into school and
decided.
I don't want to do that.
That's not what I want to do.
So he was not, and we had a longdiscussion about the passion and
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if he would have known thepassion piece of the connection
piece to it and be able to makethose two, he would have chose a
different path at an earlierage.
Oh
Sonia (18:28):
my goodness.
Yeah.
Absolutely and save themselves alot of money.
You know, I love that you bringin the connection and for our
audience.
Um, we just released an episodenumber 80 with Shia and Kennedy
and their podcasters, and I lovefrom their perspectives to high
school students what networkingmeans.
So check that out.
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because it really and that'sexactly what Brian and I are
doing.
We're redefining what networkingis.
It's not.
Yeah.
This business study where we'reall talking about business.
It's really about connection andgetting to to know our community
and know each other and reallyjust hear each other's story
because we all have a story toshare,
Bryan (19:08):
right?
Creating a deeper relationshipwith the person you're across
from.
Um, you know, it's funny.
I, I get out in the community.
I try to support our communityas much as I can.
Uh, and I'm one on ones andcommunity groups.
And I had a lady that walked upto me because this is the way
we're trained.
She walked up to me, sheintroduced herself.
And then in the same sentencesaid what she does, and I think
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we're just trained to do that.
And it was, I don't know that Iconnected with her or it was a
misconnection there.
Whereas the rest of the day atthe conversations that I had
were really more about who theywere, their families, um, what's
driving them.
What are they working on now?
Not, not how much you're gettingpaid.
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What can you do for me?
But it was really focused onmaking a deeper connection.
What that allows us to do.
And, and I think this is thepiece where.
And maybe it's an Americanthing.
I I'm not sure I've had, I'veheard people say that.
I think we missed theopportunity to understand that I
might not have a business thatcan help you.
You may not have a business thatcan help me or my kids or
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anybody, but I've got a giantnetwork behind me of connections
that we get connected on.
And you and I have connected andhad several conversations.
I will connect you in a secondwith somebody in my network, if
I can help you Our conversationnever started with what do you
do?
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How much money do you make?
It was really talking about ourstories and being able to
connect with each other.
And once we did, here we aresitting here and I would help
you out and I'd help anybody outin that same connection.
That was the biggest differencethat I learned about two years
ago that made a huge impact onmy life.
If I can teach kids and youthhow to understand that, parents
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how to understand that, itmakes.
It elevates your energy.
You feel the energy around youinstead of sucking it out of
everybody or having everybody.
You're the energy provider.
It makes a huge difference inthe life and the people around
you.
Sonia (21:12):
I'm glad to bring that up, Ryan, because it's hard for
parents who are not, um, used tonetworking or building
relationships.
It's hard for them to, to teachtheir children, right?
Because they just, they don'tknow.
And, and we're going to get toCup of Joey in just a minute,
but this is where opportunitieslike Cup of Joey come perfect.
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Because if you don't know how tonetwork, if you're learning
yourself as a parent, then comeon to Joey, you bring your
child, you bring your teenager,and you're both learning
together how to buildrelationships.
And, you know, it's true.
If you and I would have starteda conversation about business,
It probably would have stayedbusiness and we'd have never
discovered that we both hadtwins.
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They're both boy and girl.
I mean, it's just the storieskeep coming out and we would
have never discovered that if wewouldn't have gotten past what
we do for a living or, or, youknow, business wise.
And I think that's the beauty ofall of this.
Thank you so much for sharingall of your information and your
experiences.
Can you tell our audience aboutCup of Joey because they keep
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hearing Cup of Joey and I'm sureparents are like, Oh, it's Cup
of Joey.
What is Cup of Joey?
So go ahead and share that withus.
Bryan (22:23):
Yeah.
So Cup of Joey is simply aboutmaking connections around a cup
of coffee and focusing onpeople's why and their story.
And it's, it's really about,Human connection, driving human
connection with is somethingthat we, as funny enough, it
came out of the tech sectorbecause we're so focused on our
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phones.
We're so focused on ourcomputers and every, you know,
being at home that we miss thehuman connection, the piece
that's going to, it's not AI.
AI is not the driver for us.
It's us.
We are the ones that are goingto make the bigger connection.
So cup of Joey is a networkinggroup that is centered out of
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the ion.
Once every, uh, every Friday wemeet from eight 30 to 10 30.
It's a come and go just comeand.
Be part of the family.
Say hello.
Tell us your why.
If you don't know, that's fine.
And it's funny you say like, howdo you bring your kids out there
if you're not used to it?
The biggest thing is step out ofyour comfort zone.
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That makes the biggest impact onyour kids in anything is being
able to step out of your comfortzone.
My kids over the last couple ofyears have seen my company fail
and the failures of thecompanies that we've done.
They've gotten, we, ourrelationship has been better.
Because of those things, becausethey see how I react to it
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because of the positive, becauseI understand my purpose and I
understand why.
So that's an opportunity I getto teach them that was stepping
out of my comfort zone, bringingthem is one of the things that I
need to do this summer becausethere'll be off is bringing them
and putting them in an areawhere they're uncomfortable the
first time you're not going tobe very good.
That's fine.
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The whole point is, get up andcome back the next time.
There's also a couple of Joey'sin, there's once a month in
Katy, Space Center.
Space Center one's really coolbecause you can go into Space
Center after.
Um, we have one in Sugar Land,of course I do the one which
will be, um, the last Thursdayof the month here in the
Woodlands.
Um, and, we also have one atEspersons, uh, Espersons
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building in, uh, downtownHouston.
Sonia (24:34):
Yeah, I love that.
I love that so much because it'sjust getting out of your gut.
Now, I'm a natural extrovert,which is funny because one day I
need to share my old story.
I wasn't always an extrovert.
It wasn't until I became aparent.
I was the introvert girl andonce I saw the power and the
beauty of, of building communityand that's the one thing I
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wanted when I had my twins, Isaid, I am going to build
community, I'm going to know myneighbors.
I'm going to know my peoplearound here because that's what
I wanted to.
That was my, gift to myChildren.
It ended up being a gift formyself.
Bryan (25:09):
Yeah, no.
And it's funny because I've, um,you were talking about the
pandemic earlier.
Uh, I was the same way.
I was, I played baseball in highschool and I was, Kind of that
nerdy guy, um, that just lovedbaseball and those were my most
of my friends, but I didn't havea lot of friends fast forward
through college.
I played baseball chase thatdream.
One day I had somebody talk meinto trying out for cheerleader
(25:32):
at in college.
I had no experience.
I was like, no way.
I ended up doing that for twoyears.
And here I am in front of allthese people.
Um, you know, and you, thebiggest, the biggest thing yeah.
Just show up.
You never know what's gonna.
We had a friend when I lived inBaton Rouge who we were just
looking for things to do.
We started going on movie setsbecause his sister graduated.
(25:55):
His sister graduated from LSUwith the movie degree.
So they were doing movies inLouisiana.
We were extras.
That was it.
I ended up getting a part in amovie because they forgot to
cast it.
And I got a part throughout theHollywood.
All, all that just because Ishowed up.
You Just show up.
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we keep it simple.
One of my, one of the thingsfrom baseball, that was one,
just show up.
The other one that I, there'stwo others that I, um, focus on
and I try to relate to my kidsis when, what's important now,
and then the kiss theory.
Keep it simple.
Stupid.
But it's simply just the focuson what you got now and all this
(26:36):
other stuff you worry about.
Really doesn't happen.
Just show up and keep it simpleand open up.
And you might find out shereally liked people.
You just never know.
Sonia (26:47):
I know.
I know.
And you know what?
That brings in such a mindfulmoment because you're living in
the present moment.
And I think that's what we need.
We all need to just be presentwhere we're at.
And so many things can come outof that just one moment.
And for all our studentlisteners, we definitely want to
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share this with you.
Your career is a journey.
It's not an end point.
It will be up.
It will be down.
It will be going to the rightgoing to the left.
There's not an end destination.
It's a, it's a process that youshould enjoy and what you decide
right now.
Here's a, here's the biggest,um, biggest secret.
(27:29):
I'm going to tell you, if youidentify your interest, your
talents, your gifts.
Your purpose, your wine, right?
If you, if you identify thosethings early on, things might
change.
Your career might change, but itwill just shift a little bit
because you're still within yourpurpose.
That's not going to change whoyou are.
It's not going to change how youexpress that might change a
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little bit, but you're stillgoing to be in the process.
And that's the beauty of this isthat it's almost like a, like a
guiding point.
And it's going to be with youthe whole journey.
Bryan (27:59):
Yeah, I love that.
You know, the one, um, justlooking at different people's
paths, including mine, I wouldhave never guessed I am where I
am now and doing the things thatI've done simply because I
thought I was going to be abaseball player.
I was able to coach and it justturned out that my teams I
coached were much better than meplaying baseball.
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And it was an absolute honor andprivilege to be able to do all
of that.
And I am so excited to sharethat and share the stories of
the kids that I've had.
The one thing that has justreally intrigued me lately, um,
with kids and understandingstories and people.
Is I read this in a book andthen I heard it again when
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you're speaking to somebody orlistening to somebody on a
podcast and we kind of getcaught into agreeing and
disagreeing.
What if you flipped it to whereyou look through their eyes?
So as you and I are having thisconversation, you're telling me
stories.
There's something I may notagree with.
However, if I look through youreyes and try to see your
perspective, then it gives me anopportunity to see life
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completely different.
And it gives me a, it's likelooking at a painting.
We both can look at the samepainting, but we see different
things.
If I understand yourperspective, I get a better
opportunity to learn and itopens my mind to be able to
explore things that I would havenever thought of.
If I worry about, I disagreewith you, then it's the same
(29:29):
thing.
It closes the door.
Yeah, it closes the door and itgoes back to the networking
piece of, this is what I do.
It's not about what you do, it'sabout who you are and it's about
your purpose.
Sonia (29:39):
I love it.
What a beautiful way to wrap itup, Ryan.
Thank you so much for being herewith us.
Is there any other last minutething that you want to share or
tell us where people can connectwith
Bryan (29:50):
you?
Yeah.
Um, the, the biggest thing is,you know, I read a book a while
back that made a huge impact,changed my life and it was
called mindset.
And it's about reallyunderstanding your mindset and
the fixed mindset versus thegrowth mindset that opened my
mind.
It was huge for me.
(30:10):
If you ever want it for me, it'seasy to get in touch.
I'm on LinkedIn.
Uh, find me on LinkedIn at BrianHill.
I'll be under the Cup of Joeyapp.
We come to a Cup of Joey.
Reach out to me.
I'd love to connect.
I will tell you this.
One of the things that I do withanybody that I haven't met
personally, I'll send them orthey send me a request.
I'll always want to know.
I'll send you my why, but I'llalways want to know your why.
(30:32):
When you respond and give meyour why we'll connect.
Sonia (30:35):
I love that.
Thank you so much, Brian, forbeing here with us.
I really appreciate it.
Bryan (30:40):
Tanya.
It was an absolute pleasure.
I am honored.
Thank you very much for yourtime.
Sonia (30:45):
Thank you.
Thank you for listening in.
If you enjoyed this episode, itwould mean so much to me.
If you share it with a friend, acolleague, or your own
community, if you share it onsocial media and tag me, I'll
make sure to personally thankyou.
My two favorite places to hangout are Instagram and LinkedIn.
Check out our show notes for adirect link.
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I'm so thankful for each andevery one of you.
And as always stay well, bepresent and enjoy the journey.
I'll talk to you next week.
Adios.
Hi, I'm Brian Hill and you're listening to the College
(00:02):
and Career Ready podcast.
Sonia (00:38):
All right.
Welcome everyone.
Welcome to the college andcareer ready podcast.
Today on our podcast, we haveBrian Hill and Brian and I met,
maybe what two months ago at acup of Joey in Houston, Texas.
We connected immediately becausewe were both very passionate
about speaking about studentsidentifying their why and their
(00:59):
purpose and their mission foranything else before we start
talking about college and andtheir future is really what's in
their heart.
So welcome, Brian.
Welcome to the College andCommunity podcast.
Thank you for being here with ustoday.
Bryan (01:13):
Tanya, thank you very much.
And I am extremely honored to behere.
It's a privilege to be on a showlike this and be able to share
any kind of knowledge with any,uh, any listener or anyone
that's interested.
Sonia (01:25):
Why don't you introduce yourself to us and tell us a
little bit about yourbackground?
Bryan (01:31):
Yeah.
So first and foremost, I'm afather of three.
I've got two kids that aregraduating twins.
They're graduating this year.
And trying to figure out and getthem to college.
my career started, it's funny.
I was a teacher for 20 years,but it took five for somebody to
talk me into getting intoteaching.
And I love it.
Yeah.
I loved it and would have stayedin the teaching, um, but I
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needed something to challengeme.
So my background, I went intosales, had an opportunity in
sales, business development, hadan opportunity a couple of years
ago to start my own businessaround sustainability.
What I've learned is the valuethat I've gotten from this has
been And now I understand kids.
Now I understand the adults andthe career path that they have.
(02:13):
Being able to tie them in isthis thing that I, this desire,
this passion that I've all of asudden found in my elder years,
if you will.
Sonia (02:21):
Yeah, that's awesome.
And, one thing that I love isyour education background and
then also being out, you know,in the workforce.
Can you share with us a littlebit about what led you to
helping students identify theirwhy now that you're out in
education?
Like, what makes you want toreel that back in?
Bryan (02:43):
it's so funny.
The, um, when we started goingto the cup of Joey, the, the
energy and the understanding ofhow to have a conversation with
somebody took it from a verytransactional deal to a very
transitional deal, which meantto me, well, you can make an
impact on people and the, thecommunity around you.
(03:04):
So end of last year.
I sat down with a, uh, an EDPlunch in here in the woodlands.
And I listened to MarioCastillo, who was in, uh, who
was just brand new chancellor atLongstar Community College.
And he did a great job ofunderstanding or explaining how
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kids were not coming to school.
And the stat that he threw outis that 55 percent of his
incoming freshmen would comeback for their second semester.
What it did was because of myunderstanding of purpose and why
it, what it did was help me tostart looking at what the kids
did, where we're missing.
Cause I'm in the Woodlands andthis area in Montgomery County
(03:47):
has phenomenal kids and aphenomenal education system, but
there's still a lot that we'remissing.
So I started looking at the kidsand what are they missing?
It's purpose.
They don't understand how todrive.
And I sat down with, uh, Andrewat Cup of Joey, like, a month
later, and we did an, a why, um,it's a, it's like a why test or
(04:09):
why examination.
And it took 25 minutes.
You don't need this, but I didthis just because he wanted me,
he knew what we were working onhere.
And he said, just take this andlet's have a conversation about
it.
It took 20 minutes.
When I was done, he showed mewhat it put out, and I went, Oh
my gosh, that's me.
It's not that I didn't know whoI was, but it allowed me to
(04:32):
explain who I was, what mypurpose and connect what I felt
inside to the X, the outsideworld and created a passion.
Those two events led to just thehistory of me being around my
own kids, constantly coachingand being around kids for the
last 27 years.
To go, wait a second.
There's something that we canbuild here and put together that
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would help kids understand howto connect with their purpose
and drive the rest of their lifeand their career path.
Sonia (05:03):
That is amazing.
And, it's funny you, youmentioned that because my own,
um, course.
I actually took it myself and itwas, it's so like I can
literally sit here and say, Iknow what my personal values
are.
It's family, education,community and service.
and before taking my own course,couldn't really define that.
(05:24):
I need parts and pieces of it.
And one of the things that, youknow, that I share now, knowing
now what I know is that based onthat is how you make your career
choices in your careerdecisions.
So that makes it a heck no or aheck yes.
When you are confronted withopportunities, your career, your
(05:44):
personal life, um, it's, it'spretty simple.
It makes it, you know, black andwhite.
There's no gray because you knowwho you are and it's so
fundamental because in theeducation system, we're talking
about science and math andacademics and GPA, oh my gosh,
the conversations around GPA andgrades and tell me how many
times have you been on aninterview now, you know, they
(06:08):
asked you.
It's your GPA.
Bryan (06:14):
It's funny because it's, it's, I think I took it off my
resume about five years ago.
Um, and it's, you know, peopledo, do, they don't ask you, they
just ask you, do you have adegree?
They don't ask you what your GPAis.
And it's funny what they ask youis what's your achievements.
Um, and what I'm starting to seein a trend is, uh, they take,
(06:35):
once they get past your resume.
Is do you fit in with thecompany?
How do you fit in with thecompany?
Do you match what we are doing?
And because they're alsostarting to see a large turnover
in careers Uh very quickly andthey're trying to find something
to keep our youth focused
Sonia (06:53):
Yes, absolutely.
And our Gen C's are, it's, it'sa very particular group because
they're very passionate.
However, a lot of people willmislabel them by saying, Oh,
they're not motivated No, it'snot that.
It's that they really have to bepassionate about something.
Something they really have tobelieve in something in order to
(07:14):
give it, The 100 that it'srequired, you know or more now
when they find what they're goodat when they find what their
passion Oh my goodness y'allbetter watch out because the gen
z's are on fire
Bryan (07:26):
with the networking group of Cup of Joey and some of the
other opportunities I've had,I've run across several of my
former students and, um, to seewhere they were in high school
and who they were and who theyare now as young adults is
amazing.
And their passion is completelydifferent than it is, or at
(07:49):
least express different.
But it was still the same backthen.
They just didn't know what itwas.
And now it's driving them to be,you know, one was a doctor of
chiropractic that I met.
Um, another one is leading a,uh, one of our chamber of
commerce up here.
He's the president and thedirector up here.
Which is amazing to see thesestudents, who you would have
(08:10):
never guessed, that are doinggreat things.
Based on passion.
Based on why?
Because they found it once theyfound it, they went, I'm gone.
Sonia (08:19):
Yes.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Y'all be careful because oncethey find their why, their
purpose, they're going to be onit 100%.
So go ahead and share with us.
How can students identify theirwhy in high school?
Bryan (08:33):
Yeah, that's a great question.
So one of the, um, I don't knowthat there is a lot of
opportunity in schools rightnow.
I think just being able to findthe tools to separate them one
from technology so that they canhave that downtime, that time to
where they can explore.
Um, who they are and find outwhat really connects them.
(08:55):
Now if you're looking at yourpurpose or what's driven and you
want to tie that into a careerpath I think being exposed to
people and their stories It'snot how much money i'm going to
make but it's more about What'syour path?
How did you get there?
Um, what's driving you?
What connected you?
And then when you have thosetypes of conversations, kids
(09:16):
included, it's to me as early asseventh grade on, when they have
those conversations then theystart exploring who they are and
what they stand for.
Um, our schools do a great jobof Our basic four and they do
let kids choose what directionthey want to go.
(09:37):
But where I think we can getbetter is.
Give them some information sothey can choose better.
And I don't know that we dothat.
I think there's an opportunityfor growth there.
Sonia (09:46):
Absolutely.
And, and, you know, I think 1 ofthe reasons why, why no pun
intended, um, it's because, forexample, in my course, there's a
lot of self reflection.
We really need to take a stepback.
And instead of like, hearingeverything that's coming at you.
You need to just stop andreflect.
(10:07):
And so there is a lot ofreflective questions that,
unfortunately, maybe theeducation system is just, it's
more traditional, right?
Then the really self discoveryand the ability to hire to ask
your parents what when I wasyoung, what was it that, Got me
going.
What was it that made me, um,you know, excited.
(10:28):
So tell you a funny story.
my son to have twins and my son,when he was little, he, he was
one to two years old and we hada wagon and one of those, you
know, to take out to the park,we had it inside because they
wouldn't play with it.
And one day he gets under thewagon and he just starts moving
(10:50):
the tires.
And I can tell that at that age,he wanted to know how does this
work?
How does this function?
So guess what?
That story is going in hisjournal because I want him as
he's exploring careers, I wanthim to reflect on those moments
where he was very inquisitive.
And he actually even managed toflip the wagon because he just
(11:12):
wanted to know how does thiswagon work?
How does it Function and, youknow, as they get older, as they
start going to school and theystart doing all the, all the,
the fourth, they start losingthat connection with themselves.
What really motivates them.
Bryan (11:30):
Yeah.
And I think to add to that, oneof the things that kids can do
and parents can help them do isto kind of reflect on the last
few times that they weresuccessful.
What did you do?
What?
That was very successfulrecently.
Let them reflect.
In there somewhere is aconnection of purpose or
connection of why now over timeas we get older, you narrow
(11:53):
down.
You don't need to do that asmuch.
Same thing with them, but forthem, maybe you start in 7th
grade and you just kind ofperiodically do that.
By the time they're seniors,they are really connected
because once they start to seethat come up over and over and
over.
You start to go.
Wait a second.
That's me.
(12:13):
It will help them to understandand make better decisions
because they can say no whenthey want to say no, they can
have the confidence to say yeswhen they have.
Yes.
And I think that's one of thethings that parents can do
simply to help kids is what areyou doing now?
That's successful.
Let's look at how did you getthrough that briefly?
Let's not go in depth andanalyze it just briefly and help
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them out.
Mhm.
Sonia (12:36):
Absolutely.
And that's the same thing withprojects at school, you know,
team, teamwork, team projects.
What is it that your childreally enjoys the most?
Because guess what?
In a company, there is not oneperson that can do every single
function in a company.
There's people who arespecialized in different areas,
and that's what we have toreally take a step back and and
(12:59):
really reframe that becausewe're so our students are so
used to believing that they haveto be good at everything, and
rather, we've got to figure outwhat they are good at themselves
personally and what they'rereally inspired by right love
that.
okay.
So how can identifying astudent's why help them better
for college and career?
(13:20):
I know, I know there's a lot wetalked about already, but how
can we connect the dots?
How does why and the purposeconnect with college and career
readiness?
Bryan (13:29):
Yeah, so once you know your why, once a kid knows his
why or her why, and they're ableto understand how to express it,
or at least be close enough tounderstand it.
When you start looking atunderstanding what a career is
and connecting to that, I thinkit'll help them make better
decisions.
(13:50):
Several ways that you can dothat.
One, you can just simply doresearch online, but I think if
you can find a better way toimmerse yourself.
Because where we get lost isusually in the day to day.
If I can find where my whyconnects to this career, the day
to day kind of goes away and itbecomes more of a joy, then, oh
my goodness, I got to get up andgo to work today.
(14:11):
And I think a lot of our kids,several of our kids I've talked
to already, um, are changingjobs early on after a couple of
years, simply because theymissed that connection and
they're prepared for the jobthey're prepared for, but they
get out there and go, wait asecond.
My day to day is different thanwhat I expected, or this is not
what I expected.
(14:31):
So I think what the biggestthing is ask stories, talk to
people that are doing it anddon't ask them how much they get
paid, focus on what drove them.
When you're talking to abusiness, focus on what is that
business or what is that careerpath?
What.
What is the connector?
What is the passion?
What is the purpose of thatbusiness?
(14:54):
When you understand that, thenyou can start gravitating
towards it if it matches whatyou feel.
Sonia (15:01):
I love that because even within the same industry, each
Company has different missionsin different purposes.
So it might be that someone isin the right field in the right
job, but maybe the company'smission or purposes is a little
different than what their ownis.
So if they start discoveringthat there are companies out
(15:22):
there in the same field that aremore aligned with their passion,
they're going to be, um, betteremployee, and they're going to
be performed a lot betterbecause they feel that they're.
They're part of a biggermission, a bigger purpose than
just your day to day job.
Bryan (15:37):
Yeah, and I think a lot of the kids today, as you said
earlier, that was drive, you tapinto that passion, they are more
committed.
So they understand that it's notabout reading, writing, and
arithmetic.
It really is.
Where can I add value and eachone of us have a different
purpose and each one of us havea different why so if you can
(15:58):
find that team where I fit thiswhy the company matches my why,
but my why compliments theperson next to me or the people
I work with, then you're workingfor a team now you have a
passion and you're tapped intosomething that you can do for a
long period of time.
Sonia (16:15):
I love that.
And we're going to be savingmoney in college, spending
unnecessary costs in the careerthat's just not aligned with us.
And we're going to save themfrom career pivots that we hear
so much, you know, and I thinkafter the pandemic, people
really started questioning theirday to day job.
They really started questioningwhat's their biggest, biggest
purpose in life.
(16:36):
I think that's the shift thatwe're all encountering that Our
youth is encountering and that'swhy we're having this big shift
and career pivots out in theworkforce that a lot of our
students probably don't know.
And that's when we are trying tohelp prevent that in the future.
Bryan (16:51):
Right?
Absolutely.
And I think the connectionpiece, I think the other thing
that kids can do and that I've.
Really encourage them,especially with a cup of joey
group.
We have, I think, getting outthere and talking to people and
getting into a network or aconnection type setting to where
they can really understand thattype of conversation.
A lot of times we are, our kidsare locked into their own world
(17:14):
or their own click and beingable to get into an adult
situation or a young adultsituation where they can ask
questions.
How did you grow?
How did you do this?
Um, is important, but just verycasual.
It doesn't have to be aninterview.
It's just really a connectionpiece.
And that's what we're kind of,we kind of need to grow to help
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grow the passion is thatconnection.
I spoke with a gentleman.
Um, he was in sales.
I spoke with him and I just, Ialways like asking people their
story.
And I asked him, I said, tell meabout, how did you get into what
you're doing?
He goes, Unique story.
I went to junior college cause Ialways wanted to be a vet.
So I went to junior college fora year and I studied my, my
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undergraduate stuff.
And then I transferred to AMM.
And after two years, I looked atgoing into an internship and I
started interviewing and I foundout how much they made, what
they did.
This guy had spent 60, 000,three years into school and
decided.
I don't want to do that.
That's not what I want to do.
So he was not, and we had a longdiscussion about the passion and
(18:20):
if he would have known thepassion piece of the connection
piece to it and be able to makethose two, he would have chose a
different path at an earlierage.
Oh
Sonia (18:28):
my goodness.
Yeah.
Absolutely and save themselves alot of money.
You know, I love that you bringin the connection and for our
audience.
Um, we just released an episodenumber 80 with Shia and Kennedy
and their podcasters, and I lovefrom their perspectives to high
school students what networkingmeans.
So check that out.
(18:49):
because it really and that'sexactly what Brian and I are
doing.
We're redefining what networkingis.
It's not.
Yeah.
This business study where we'reall talking about business.
It's really about connection andgetting to to know our community
and know each other and reallyjust hear each other's story
because we all have a story toshare,
Bryan (19:08):
right?
Creating a deeper relationshipwith the person you're across
from.
Um, you know, it's funny.
I, I get out in the community.
I try to support our communityas much as I can.
Uh, and I'm one on ones andcommunity groups.
And I had a lady that walked upto me because this is the way
we're trained.
She walked up to me, sheintroduced herself.
And then in the same sentencesaid what she does, and I think
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we're just trained to do that.
And it was, I don't know that Iconnected with her or it was a
misconnection there.
Whereas the rest of the day atthe conversations that I had
were really more about who theywere, their families, um, what's
driving them.
What are they working on now?
Not, not how much you're gettingpaid.
(19:51):
What can you do for me?
But it was really focused onmaking a deeper connection.
What that allows us to do.
And, and I think this is thepiece where.
And maybe it's an Americanthing.
I I'm not sure I've had, I'veheard people say that.
I think we missed theopportunity to understand that I
might not have a business thatcan help you.
You may not have a business thatcan help me or my kids or
(20:13):
anybody, but I've got a giantnetwork behind me of connections
that we get connected on.
And you and I have connected andhad several conversations.
I will connect you in a secondwith somebody in my network, if
I can help you Our conversationnever started with what do you
do?
(20:34):
How much money do you make?
It was really talking about ourstories and being able to
connect with each other.
And once we did, here we aresitting here and I would help
you out and I'd help anybody outin that same connection.
That was the biggest differencethat I learned about two years
ago that made a huge impact onmy life.
If I can teach kids and youthhow to understand that, parents
(20:57):
how to understand that, itmakes.
It elevates your energy.
You feel the energy around youinstead of sucking it out of
everybody or having everybody.
You're the energy provider.
It makes a huge difference inthe life and the people around
you.
Sonia (21:12):
I'm glad to bring that up, Ryan, because it's hard for
parents who are not, um, used tonetworking or building
relationships.
It's hard for them to, to teachtheir children, right?
Because they just, they don'tknow.
And, and we're going to get toCup of Joey in just a minute,
but this is where opportunitieslike Cup of Joey come perfect.
(21:33):
Because if you don't know how tonetwork, if you're learning
yourself as a parent, then comeon to Joey, you bring your
child, you bring your teenager,and you're both learning
together how to buildrelationships.
And, you know, it's true.
If you and I would have starteda conversation about business,
It probably would have stayedbusiness and we'd have never
discovered that we both hadtwins.
(21:55):
They're both boy and girl.
I mean, it's just the storieskeep coming out and we would
have never discovered that if wewouldn't have gotten past what
we do for a living or, or, youknow, business wise.
And I think that's the beauty ofall of this.
Thank you so much for sharingall of your information and your
experiences.
Can you tell our audience aboutCup of Joey because they keep
(22:17):
hearing Cup of Joey and I'm sureparents are like, Oh, it's Cup
of Joey.
What is Cup of Joey?
So go ahead and share that withus.
Bryan (22:23):
Yeah.
So Cup of Joey is simply aboutmaking connections around a cup
of coffee and focusing onpeople's why and their story.
And it's, it's really about,Human connection, driving human
connection with is somethingthat we, as funny enough, it
came out of the tech sectorbecause we're so focused on our
(22:46):
phones.
We're so focused on ourcomputers and every, you know,
being at home that we miss thehuman connection, the piece
that's going to, it's not AI.
AI is not the driver for us.
It's us.
We are the ones that are goingto make the bigger connection.
So cup of Joey is a networkinggroup that is centered out of
(23:07):
the ion.
Once every, uh, every Friday wemeet from eight 30 to 10 30.
It's a come and go just comeand.
Be part of the family.
Say hello.
Tell us your why.
If you don't know, that's fine.
And it's funny you say like, howdo you bring your kids out there
if you're not used to it?
The biggest thing is step out ofyour comfort zone.
(23:27):
That makes the biggest impact onyour kids in anything is being
able to step out of your comfortzone.
My kids over the last couple ofyears have seen my company fail
and the failures of thecompanies that we've done.
They've gotten, we, ourrelationship has been better.
Because of those things, becausethey see how I react to it
(23:48):
because of the positive, becauseI understand my purpose and I
understand why.
So that's an opportunity I getto teach them that was stepping
out of my comfort zone, bringingthem is one of the things that I
need to do this summer becausethere'll be off is bringing them
and putting them in an areawhere they're uncomfortable the
first time you're not going tobe very good.
That's fine.
(24:09):
The whole point is, get up andcome back the next time.
There's also a couple of Joey'sin, there's once a month in
Katy, Space Center.
Space Center one's really coolbecause you can go into Space
Center after.
Um, we have one in Sugar Land,of course I do the one which
will be, um, the last Thursdayof the month here in the
Woodlands.
Um, and, we also have one atEspersons, uh, Espersons
(24:31):
building in, uh, downtownHouston.
Sonia (24:34):
Yeah, I love that.
I love that so much because it'sjust getting out of your gut.
Now, I'm a natural extrovert,which is funny because one day I
need to share my old story.
I wasn't always an extrovert.
It wasn't until I became aparent.
I was the introvert girl andonce I saw the power and the
beauty of, of building communityand that's the one thing I
(24:56):
wanted when I had my twins, Isaid, I am going to build
community, I'm going to know myneighbors.
I'm going to know my peoplearound here because that's what
I wanted to.
That was my, gift to myChildren.
It ended up being a gift formyself.
Bryan (25:09):
Yeah, no.
And it's funny because I've, um,you were talking about the
pandemic earlier.
Uh, I was the same way.
I was, I played baseball in highschool and I was, Kind of that
nerdy guy, um, that just lovedbaseball and those were my most
of my friends, but I didn't havea lot of friends fast forward
through college.
I played baseball chase thatdream.
One day I had somebody talk meinto trying out for cheerleader
(25:32):
at in college.
I had no experience.
I was like, no way.
I ended up doing that for twoyears.
And here I am in front of allthese people.
Um, you know, and you, thebiggest, the biggest thing yeah.
Just show up.
You never know what's gonna.
We had a friend when I lived inBaton Rouge who we were just
looking for things to do.
We started going on movie setsbecause his sister graduated.
(25:55):
His sister graduated from LSUwith the movie degree.
So they were doing movies inLouisiana.
We were extras.
That was it.
I ended up getting a part in amovie because they forgot to
cast it.
And I got a part throughout theHollywood.
All, all that just because Ishowed up.
You Just show up.
(26:15):
we keep it simple.
One of my, one of the thingsfrom baseball, that was one,
just show up.
The other one that I, there'stwo others that I, um, focus on
and I try to relate to my kidsis when, what's important now,
and then the kiss theory.
Keep it simple.
Stupid.
But it's simply just the focuson what you got now and all this
(26:36):
other stuff you worry about.
Really doesn't happen.
Just show up and keep it simpleand open up.
And you might find out shereally liked people.
You just never know.
Sonia (26:47):
I know.
I know.
And you know what?
That brings in such a mindfulmoment because you're living in
the present moment.
And I think that's what we need.
We all need to just be presentwhere we're at.
And so many things can come outof that just one moment.
And for all our studentlisteners, we definitely want to
(27:09):
share this with you.
Your career is a journey.
It's not an end point.
It will be up.
It will be down.
It will be going to the rightgoing to the left.
There's not an end destination.
It's a, it's a process that youshould enjoy and what you decide
right now.
Here's a, here's the biggest,um, biggest secret.
(27:29):
I'm going to tell you, if youidentify your interest, your
talents, your gifts.
Your purpose, your wine, right?
If you, if you identify thosethings early on, things might
change.
Your career might change, but itwill just shift a little bit
because you're still within yourpurpose.
That's not going to change whoyou are.
It's not going to change how youexpress that might change a
(27:49):
little bit, but you're stillgoing to be in the process.
And that's the beauty of this isthat it's almost like a, like a
guiding point.
And it's going to be with youthe whole journey.
Bryan (27:59):
Yeah, I love that.
You know, the one, um, justlooking at different people's
paths, including mine, I wouldhave never guessed I am where I
am now and doing the things thatI've done simply because I
thought I was going to be abaseball player.
I was able to coach and it justturned out that my teams I
coached were much better than meplaying baseball.
(28:21):
And it was an absolute honor andprivilege to be able to do all
of that.
And I am so excited to sharethat and share the stories of
the kids that I've had.
The one thing that has justreally intrigued me lately, um,
with kids and understandingstories and people.
Is I read this in a book andthen I heard it again when
(28:44):
you're speaking to somebody orlistening to somebody on a
podcast and we kind of getcaught into agreeing and
disagreeing.
What if you flipped it to whereyou look through their eyes?
So as you and I are having thisconversation, you're telling me
stories.
There's something I may notagree with.
However, if I look through youreyes and try to see your
perspective, then it gives me anopportunity to see life
(29:07):
completely different.
And it gives me a, it's likelooking at a painting.
We both can look at the samepainting, but we see different
things.
If I understand yourperspective, I get a better
opportunity to learn and itopens my mind to be able to
explore things that I would havenever thought of.
If I worry about, I disagreewith you, then it's the same
(29:29):
thing.
It closes the door.
Yeah, it closes the door and itgoes back to the networking
piece of, this is what I do.
It's not about what you do, it'sabout who you are and it's about
your purpose.
Sonia (29:39):
I love it.
What a beautiful way to wrap itup, Ryan.
Thank you so much for being herewith us.
Is there any other last minutething that you want to share or
tell us where people can connectwith
Bryan (29:50):
you?
Yeah.
Um, the, the biggest thing is,you know, I read a book a while
back that made a huge impact,changed my life and it was
called mindset.
And it's about reallyunderstanding your mindset and
the fixed mindset versus thegrowth mindset that opened my
mind.
It was huge for me.
(30:10):
If you ever want it for me, it'seasy to get in touch.
I'm on LinkedIn.
Uh, find me on LinkedIn at BrianHill.
I'll be under the Cup of Joeyapp.
We come to a Cup of Joey.
Reach out to me.
I'd love to connect.
I will tell you this.
One of the things that I do withanybody that I haven't met
personally, I'll send them orthey send me a request.
I'll always want to know.
I'll send you my why, but I'llalways want to know your why.
(30:32):
When you respond and give meyour why we'll connect.
Sonia (30:35):
I love that.
Thank you so much, Brian, forbeing here with us.
I really appreciate it.
Bryan (30:40):
Tanya.
It was an absolute pleasure.
I am honored.
Thank you very much for yourtime.
Sonia (30:45):
Thank you.
Thank you for listening in.
If you enjoyed this episode, itwould mean so much to me.
If you share it with a friend, acolleague, or your own
community, if you share it onsocial media and tag me, I'll
make sure to personally thankyou.
My two favorite places to hangout are Instagram and LinkedIn.
Check out our show notes for adirect link.
(31:05):
I'm so thankful for each andevery one of you.
And as always stay well, bepresent and enjoy the journey.
I'll talk to you next week.
Adios.
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