May 23, 2025 • 31 mins
The foundation of every successful business isn't just strategy or capital—it's leadership that sets the tone, creates vision, and empowers others to excel. In this enlightening conversation, we unpack the true essence of leadership from a Christian business owner's perspective.
Leadership isn't about position but about influence. As we explore the pivotal role of authentic leadership, we share a powerful revelation: your team's ceiling will never rise higher than your own leadership capacity. This means continually investing in your growth while simultaneously pouring into those you lead. We share stories from a recent industry conference that demonstrated how crucial it is to stand firm in your values, even when you're the only ones doing so.
The fear of hiring often keeps business owners trapped in low-value tasks when they should be focusing on activities that significantly move the needle forward. We discuss practical strategies for overcoming this fear, including the importance of transparent communication that helps your team understand the context behind your decisions. When team members grasp the "why" behind your vision, they transform from direction-followers to passionate advocates.
One particularly striking moment in our conversation revolves around cultural alignment in hiring. We share how simply presenting your mission, vision, and core values upfront can save countless hours and headaches by identifying team members who truly fit your company culture. Small indicators like punctuality for interviews often reveal character traits that will significantly impact performance.
For entrepreneurs at any stage, we offer tangible advice: make your goals measurable, put them somewhere visible, speak life into your business daily, and find accountability partners who will hold you to your commitments. These practices create the foundation for achievement and growth, both for you and your team.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Grind, everybody.
Man.
Another amazing, awesome week.
We got some things coming downthe pipeline, some things in the
works.
Thekingdomgrindcom is going tobe available soon and we also
have a community that we'regoing to have available soon
Just feeding into businessowners weekly trainings, live
(00:21):
demonstrations a lot of coolthings coming up and super
excited about.
So just kind of wanted to startthe show off with that.
Um, also in the, wherever youlisten to podcasts, there's
usually a button at the top thatsays send a text.
You can click that and it'll godirectly to coach martin and I.
Um, so if you guys want to callor text into the show, go ahead
(00:42):
and feel free to do that.
Those are just a couple thingsI want to touch on before we get
started today.
So I have coach martin herewith me again.
How's it going?
Yeah, good.
How's it going, dylan?
Good you having a good week sofar?
Yeah, it's been good.
Yeah, it's awesome.
There was a couple things thatI wanted to touch on this week
um, chris and I had gone to aconference and, um, it was more
(01:04):
for like a hair, hair salon,hair industry, and one of the
things that came up wasleadership and how important
leadership is in your business,how much it impacts your team,
and I took away quite a fewthings on leadership and how we
should show up for our teams,and I just wanted to kind of
(01:26):
dive into that and see whereyour head is at as far as
leadership goes and then kind ofgo down that rabbit hole and
kind of have a back and forth onthat.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah.
So it's a good.
It's a good topic for sure.
I think it's a topic where youknow I got to definitely, you
know, think about it.
You don't want to be harsh whenyou.
You know I got to definitely,you know, think about it.
You don't want to be harsh whenyou, you know you say things,
but I think today leadership isis, you know, I really want to
(01:55):
use the word overrated, but notnot meaning that we don't need
leaders A hundred percent we do.
What I mean is, I think a lot oftimes, you know, we just throw
certain people in charge thatreally have no business being in
charge and we think they're aleader and then, ultimately, the
people that are underneath them, they're going to suffer
because the ceiling is low.
It's kind of like how high isyour ceiling in your house If
(02:16):
you go to a business?
The ceiling is higher.
It's the same way.
So having leadership that isover you, that they're very good
at what they do, they've beenable to move the needle wherever
they've been at and to trulylearn from them, to me is vital.
I think it's a must when itcomes to scaling.
Like I said, I think thedownfall with our society today
(02:39):
is everyone thinks they're aleader, and if your knowledge is
right here, how are you goingto get people to hear?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and I think that's
one thing I took away from thisweekend is, no matter where
you're at within your business,you could be doing $10 million a
year.
You can still be improving, andI think that's where it's vital
to have mentors One of thepeople I listened to they're
doing $250 million a year.
They still have a group ofmentors that they have around
(03:09):
them of people that have done500, 700 million, and I just
think it's going back to kind ofwhat we talked about last week
a little bit, as far as likecontinually learning and not
letting pride get in the way oflike, oh, I'm doing 10 million a
year, I'm good.
No, it's like we should alwaysbe in a state of learning and
like going to this conferencegetting fed by some you know
(03:30):
great speakers that I learned acouple things, you know, and
it's like I think as leaders, weshould always be, like the word
says, leading the way.
We should always be in thefront and not the back, right,
and so I just took away like howcan I be a better leader within
the salon?
How can I be a better leader inmy home?
How can I be a better leaderjust in?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
my life in general and the people that I surround
myself with.
So it's a good take.
I like it.
I do Um.
You know, and I think the thingabout it is, whenever people
are to the level where they'remaking seven, eight figures a
year or nine figures in thisparticular person's instance
usually by the time you getthere, you've been extremely
(04:18):
developed where it's now nolonger a question You're going
to have leaders, right?
I remember one of the gentlemenwas one of my mentors that the
last year I was with him he made$50 million but he had multiple
coaches that he hired.
You know what I mean.
Now, the outside, the layman,would say, well, why do you need
a coach?
You just made 50 mil.
But he's like, well, you don'tget it.
(04:38):
You know what I mean.
So, yeah, I agree with you andwhat happens is, honestly, the
more money you make and the moreyou develop and the more you
make really to be honest withyou the more coaches and mentors
and leaders you're going tohave over the top of you,
because you understand that it'slike the lifeblood of you know
of what it is that you need tobe able to get to, wherever it
(05:01):
is you're trying to get to.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, absolutely, wherever it is you're trying to
get to.
Yeah, absolutely, and I thinkthat kind of touches on.
Another point that I wanted totalk on today was hiring and
bringing a team on that you canlead.
I know a couple of people in mylife that own businesses but
they don't want to hire.
Like they're scared to hire andthey don't know the process and
they're comfortable wherethey're.
At which, you know, some peoplemay just be comfortable doing
(05:25):
it by themselves, but I think,using the excuse of like I don't
know what it looks like, I'mscared to hire somebody and then
fail, and it goes back to thatfailure mindset.
I think, though, at times, asleaders, we need to be able to
step up if we do want to growand step out in faith, and, you
know, hire those team membersthat can propel us to the next
(05:48):
level.
Like, we should not be doing a$10 an hour, $15, 20 an hour
task that can be outsourced.
We should be focusing on the$50 an hour, $100 an hour, $150
an hour task.
Right, and I think that's evenwhere I'm looking at.
Where in my life can I outsourcesome of these tasks, whether
it's a VA or whatever the casemay be.
(06:09):
How can I get more time back?
So, like, for an example, atthe salon, right, if it doesn't
get answered at the salon, thephone call then goes to my cell
phone.
I can pick up and manage thecall.
I could hire a VA for that.
Like there's no reason that Ishould be getting the phone
calls if it's not picked up atthe salon, right?
Like, yeah, the stylist at thesalon will call them back, but
(06:34):
you always want to try and getthat initial phone call because
you know you could always losethat client if you don't answer
the phone.
Yeah, so instead of just Icould take the phone call.
But that's an area where Icould outsource that for $10 an
hour, $15 an hour or per calland save all that time and
energy.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I do.
So there's a couple of piecesin there I want to touch on.
So if the audience doesn't knowwhat a VA is, that's virtual
assistant, um.
But ultimately I think, um one,you're right, as a business
owner, you want to get to thepoint where you're only dealing
with MMS, money-makingactivities.
So if it's not a money-makingactivity, you need to cut it,
have somebody else do it.
But I think what happens with a, with a thought process of a
(07:17):
lot of times we just, you know,we forget to make the main thing
the main thing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So, and what I mean by that is like, what's the main
thing?
Like why are you building thebusiness that you're building,
right?
What's the purpose?
So you fill that in and thenyou realize that you know, when
you're building a business, man,it's a lot of work, it's, you
know, you're not, you got toroll up the sleeves, you're
grinding.
It's kind of like the wholethought process the nine to five
(07:45):
pays the bills, but the five tonine builds the legacy and it's
many, many of those days, ifnot years, and years, and years.
But the thing about it is youwant to get to the point
eventually where you utilizethat money to buy back your time
.
So if you're not doing that,then you're missing the boat.
And I'll give you an example,and I won't mention the name.
(08:05):
I know I have a friend of minewho his father is very, very
wealthy.
He's built a very good life,built a very big business, made
a lot of money.
And you know we were havingthis conversation and he was
talking about how his fatherreally wasn't around a whole lot
.
And I get it now at thebeginning right, you're building
in, all not, but you got to thepoint where he should have
(08:26):
hired all that out.
You can get.
So like caught up in the hey,I'm working all the time.
You want to get to the pointwhere you start buying back your
time.
Time's a limit of resource.
Money is not.
So, once you're building yourbusiness, start scaling.
Yes, you got to you.
Hire employees.
Start with VAs, hire employees,hire people that you can.
(08:47):
And it's actually twofold Oneyou get to buy back your time
and now spend the time with yourfamily, people that you love,
check.
But also I look at like man.
I get to pour into my employees.
I get to empower them.
I get to teach them things thatthey ain't going to learn
outside of here.
You know what I mean.
So now I have the opportunityto kind of like be that person
(09:08):
that's going to be able to pourinto them, get them thinking
bigger, help them so that'llserve them one day.
So I kind of look at it likeboth.
Yes, we're doing ourselves aservice to be able to have time
to spend with our family and thepeople we love, but we're also
every single employee that wecan hire.
We could change their life.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, no, absolutely Like this conference that we
went to.
We had taken our manager withus and she was able to get
poured into, and I think, asChristian business owners, we
should be pouring into thepeople that work for us just
like we would anybody else.
It was funny.
Well, not funny, but at thisconference you know, the the
(09:48):
hair industry is very muchdemonic.
There's just like a lot ofdemonic activity, like things
that are just not Christianoriented.
Right, and one of the speakershad gone up on stage and was
doing some like teaching peoplesome weird stuff.
Well, chris and I were juststanding there and we have our,
you know, manager with us.
(10:11):
She sees us just standing there,not participating, and then she
chooses not to participate andit's like now we're feeding that
into her of like, hey, thisisn't okay, we're going to stand
up for the truth, whether we,whether we're the only ones not
doing it or not.
Right, and Crystal and I werejust sitting there praying and
praying the blood of Jesus and,you know, once it was all said
(10:31):
and done, the speaker says youknow, did anyone like whatever?
They asked the question andthis little old man raised his
hand and she called him up onstage and I told Crystal Jesus
needs to be brought to thisindustry.
This guy gets up on stage andhe's like I just want to give
(10:53):
all the glory to Jesus, I justwant to like I pray to Jesus, I
get my comfort from Jesus, andhe's like, talking about Jesus,
jesus and the speaker that wasdoing this stuff just started
bawling on stage and it's likeeveryone else, even if they're
Christian, they're all in theredoing this stuff that she was
saying.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
But it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It takes the light and the darkness to reveal those
things.
And not only did you know wesit there and pray and then this
man step up and present Jesusin this type of environment, but
our employees saw the power ofJesus through this whole thing
as well.
You know, and I think that's asChristian business owners we
(11:34):
have to step into that and pourthat into our employees.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I think it kind of even taps into you, go back
to, you know, going back to, toleadership, right, you, you,
your job as a leader is to setthe tone.
You know your job as a leaderis to lead from the front.
I've heard people say like,leave from the middle, leave
from the back.
No, you're not a leader, you'renot leading anybody.
You lead from the front.
You set the tone and andstudies were done.
(11:58):
There was a study done once,dylan, where they took like I
don't know, it was like 50people.
They put them in a room, theygave them all a question and it
was the wrong.
It was, uh, like, whatever thequestion was, hey, you know,
what do you see?
And then, um, it was set upwhere, like, the first 20 people
would say something totallyopposite of what the answer was,
but it was the same answer overand over and over again yeah so
(12:20):
then, when it got to the peoplethat weren't actors in this
study, they all agreed with thelie.
You know what I mean.
So when you like, look at humanbehavior, that's what happens
so a lot of times, like if we'renot leading from the front, if
we're not like, hey, no, thisisn't acceptable.
What happens is everybodystarts doing it, and not only
everyone starts it.
Now the people that areunderneath you end up doing it
(12:43):
as well.
So you've got to give creditfor that man to be bold, to be
able to go up there, and hecould have got ridiculed, and he
just did it.
And not only did he do it, butGod always honors obedience, and
I think that's where a bigproblem is.
Most people aren't willing tobe obedient and they're not
willing to move their feet.
He raised his hand.
(13:04):
He could have got ridiculed.
He went up on stage and he wasobedient and you saw, obviously,
what the Lord did with it.
Amazing story.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, no, it kind of put things in the Bible in
perspective for me, because Ithink of, like Paul and all
these like people that were inthe Bible going to these places
where they're heavy into demonicactivity, and and how Chris and
I felt in that moment of likeat first, of just like standing
there while everyone else isdoing everything, like it could
feel awkward, like it could feellike man we're, we're going
(13:35):
against a hundred percent ofthese people, almost, you know,
and it just puts things intoperspective as far as the Bible
goes.
Like man, what were they goingthrough when they were going
into these cities and towns?
Right, I was just like man.
I couldn't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh yeah, I mean, honestly, everything's spiritual
anyways.
So when you really think aboutit, you know what I mean.
You see something crazy goingon and it's not that there's
craziness going on, there'sspiritual, there's spirits and
demonic stuff that's making thatstuff go on, right.
So that's the crazy thing aboutit.
But you know they had to gothrough that.
(14:14):
But here's the interestingthing that craziness has been
going on since the beginning oftime, right, but it subsided
when those people were bold,paul, they took the gospel, they
, they did, and they drove outall that craziness.
Now a lot of them obviouslylost their life and they did the
thing that they had to do.
But, man, you talk about agreat example of a leader yeah
(14:35):
that's a leader right there.
He didn't care what happened tohim.
He didn't care if he was thrownin jail.
Most of us would be crying andcomplaining, and I can't believe
this has happened to me.
He didn't care.
He was like no, because heunderstood that it was all
spiritual, Like he had to, hehad.
He had a work to do to drivethis nonsense out, and and and,
obviously not to get too deepinto it.
(14:56):
But we're in a country that youcould see what's going on, Same
thing right, when half thestuff that's going on is demonic
.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I wanted to get your take on this piece a
little bit.
It was interesting.
There was two speakers theother ones were just talking
about business stuff but twospeakers one was about
meditation, the other one wasdoing the other stuff and what I
found very, very interestingwas a lot of their principles.
You could pull from the wordyeah.
(15:25):
But what I had noticed and youknow this has been talked about
widely is like what satan doesis he pulls god's word and then
moves it towards yourself.
He doesn't even move it towardshim.
He makes you start thinkingabout yourself rather than
others, and that's what I hadseen with even like the
meditation is like, oh, yourinner self, and it's all about
(15:47):
self, self, self and takingJesus out of what they're
actually doing.
So I wanted to get your takebecause I thought it was just
fascinating and interesting,like how some of these
principles are in the Bible thatthey're doing, but they're
changing it from Jesus tothemselves.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and that's been going on for a long time as
well.
So what happens is you'll haveand we always mess stuff up, but
I think again, it's spiritualright you, it's, there's a
demonic piece going on to it.
So when you, when you look atit, like you think of a think of
a video game I don't, I'venever been in the games, but
let's just say you're in thegames.
Whatever that game is, Somebodycreated that game.
(16:26):
They put all the rules in place,how you got to operate.
When you lose, you do thesethings.
You lose to get coins.
You know what I mean?
It's all like Mario golf, yeah,process.
So God created everything andall the rules within it, and if
(16:47):
you follow the rules there'sreward.
If you don't follow the rules,you get in trouble.
It's very simple, right?
So the thing about it is thatthe rules that he puts in place,
the principles I like to callthem the success principles they
work for everybody, whether youbelieve in the Lord or not,
because his word is true and theprinciple will work.
But what's happened issometimes will people will find
(17:11):
a thing that works, a principlethat works, and then what
they'll do is they'll serve theprinciple instead of the person
that created the principle yeahthat makes sense, and I think
that's where we get lost.
That's why you see thesereligions that are based around
like you know, know, meditationor you know whatever you know
speaking, and all of this stuff,when in reality it's a
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principle that the Lord put in.
But it's never about theprinciple, it's about the person
that created it or the God thatcreated it, and that's why
that's where we differ from them, because we know that God
created these principles.
We worship the Lord, we do theprinciples because he tells us
to do it.
They more don't understand thatand they worship the principle.
(17:54):
So that's where the thing is.
But yeah, you want to, andthere's power, there's power in
you know, there's power andthere's truth in all of these
things and when you look at itfrom a surface, like you know
the things they do, they work.
The problem is what we talkedabout.
It's not.
We're not worshiping theprinciple.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that's what I found
fascinating, especially withlike the meditation, like
meditating within yourself andfinding peace within yourself.
I'm like I'm pretty sure theword says meditate on the word.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like the Bible, talks about meditating on the word.
But society, or you know peoplethat believe in the principle,
meditating, they're finding itwithin themselves, which is
obviously from Satan, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, there was a quite a few things that I
took away from this weekend andI think leadership, employees
and like showing that leadershipto employees, because it was
cool, because our manager shewas, she just didn't understand
like the business side of thingsand just kind of like, I think,
(19:00):
as a leader, sometimes you kindof know what's going on behind
the scenes but your team doesn't.
And I think that's wheretransparency comes in.
So it's like crystal and I arelike, oh, we need to do this, we
need to do that, and likenobody has a context that we
have, and they're like why do weneed to do all this?
So I thought it was cool too.
Like with her going to thisevent, she started seeing some
of the context of like whatcrystal and I were you, why we
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have been presenting all thisstuff, or like the directions
that we've been wanting to takewithin the business, and so, man
, I think after this conference,like I get it, and it fed her
in a way to where now she wantsto step up and do more, because
now she has the context.
And I think one thing I tookaway from that is just
transparency, even transparencywith your team of like hey, this
(19:49):
is what's going on, which iswhy we need to do this, and now
you can get everybody to rallybehind the one objective, and I
think it's so important to haveyour team behind you rather than
you trying to like do this, dothat, do this, do that, like no,
let's all get on the same pageand work on this together so we
can all go up.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah so I like it, I do, I.
I mean I, I'm one where, youknow, I'm a believer there's a,
you know, a divide on this, butI'm a believer that you hire, uh
, for culture, yeah, and thenyou train up and you know what I
mean.
And it's just interesting andI've, you know, been in a
position where I've hired a lotof people and I've had to fire a
lot of people.
(20:29):
You know what I mean and youknow you always feel bad.
You know when you have to firesomebody, but you know when
somebody wasn't willing to give100% and do the work, then you
don't feel as bad.
You know what I mean.
But you know, for me that wouldkind of be a non-negotiable.
I'd have to have somebody thatwas driven, that was whatever
the case, and if they weren't,they would be working somewhere
(20:51):
else.
I would have to let them go.
You know what I mean.
But it's kind of like you havefour tires, but if one of them
is flat, how far is your cargoing?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So you've got to make sure that, yeah, as you start
growing, you want to make surethat, yeah, as a you know, as
you start, as you start growing,you want to make sure that
everyone, hey, here's ourobjective.
And that's why I think that youknow your vision and your goals
and stuff should be up on thewall, where everybody sees it.
So, you know, it's kind of likewhat the Lord said right, make
the vision, write it and make itplain, put on the wall that he
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that reads it may read it andrun.
Yeah, I think that you want tobe like, hey, this is a goal,
we're all on board, we all good,okay, cool, like, now, let's do
it.
You know, I mean, you don'thave somebody that's going to be
that flat tire, that's going tobe complaining at the water
cooler like, oh, this sucks,it's whatever.
Yeah, you, you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You got to cut those yeah, and I think the biggest
piece is like the hiring processfirst, like let's be proactive
rather than reactive.
You know, like if we could cutthem out before even bringing
them on, that's the bestscenario.
And I think putting thatmission, vision and those core
values in place, presentingthose to people beforehand, um,
(22:02):
having certain questions thatyou look you know to ask during
the interview process that alignwith your guys's goals, for
example, like we had somebodyreach out to a salon wanting a
position and we are looking forsomebody part-time right now,
but I had sent our missionstatement, our vision statement,
our core values, all this, andthen she responded with okay, so
(22:23):
do we still get paid?
I don't even remember what shesaid, because as soon as she
responded like okay, and then dowe still get paid?
Blah, blah, blah, I'm likeyou're not the right culture fit
.
Like, just from that oneresponse alone, you're not even
going to come in for aninterview.
So I think having those systemsin place beforehand could save
(22:45):
you so much time and headache onthe backend.
My little secret if you're lateto the first interview, you're
not getting hired.
Yeah, and crystal laughs Causein all of our employees know
this now.
So, like if somebody does comein for an interview and they're
late in their heads, they'relike well, that sucks.
(23:05):
Cause that's like one of mynon-negotiables is being late.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know you got to do better
than that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Which, at this conference as well, this lady
had mentioned a study that theydid.
It was NASA and they couldpredict who would be a leader
within the company simply by,and what they would do is the
person interviewing would comein, trip and fall and, depending
on the person that they weregoing to interview's response to
(23:36):
them tripping and falling andthe way they laughed or went
about the situation you couldtell if they were going to be a
leader or not 100% of the time,which I thought was interesting.
Just in your initial response tosomething like that can show if
you're going to have a leaderor not.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah Well, just think of the process of testing that,
how long that took, how manypeople they had to go through to
be able to get the right datato be able to determine that.
It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, for sure.
Do you have any tips, tricksfor business owners this week
that you would like to share orthat came up this week?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, good question.
So you know, I, I would say if,if I'm talking to a bit
depending on the business owner,right, but if we're talking to
a new business owner, I wouldalways say kind of the same
thing that I tell everybody.
You know, stop stop focusing onthe money.
You know, I get it.
I do get it.
We all have to live.
We got to pay the bills, we gotto put food on the table but
(24:34):
ultimately, at the end of theday, the Lord's not going to let
us go hungry.
So stop focusing about on themoney.
Remember why you started right,write it down.
Figure out what those goals are.
Make sure the goals aremeasurable, not just like, oh, I
want to do better.
No, they got to be measurable.
(24:54):
I do this all the time,especially with my children.
I do that now.
They're good at it now, but atfirst they'd give me like, well,
I want to lose weight, well,what does that mean?
No, give me something I canmeasure, give me an amount.
So find out what your goal is,make it measurable, put it up on
the wall and I would and Iwould say honestly, speak life
into it.
I would tell you like everysingle day I mean, obviously,
(25:17):
you got to do the work.
You got to do the work, you gotto do the things that you need
to do.
That's a given.
We're not talking about that.
But I'm saying you need tospeak life into your business.
Every day, before you start, Icould tell you that I've my big
goal right in the bathroom andin the very every day, at five
o'clock in the morning.
That's when it's going to start.
So, man, I tell you, do it,speak into it, speak life into
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your business, and I'm going togive it.
I'm going to go back.
Let's look at the template.
Right, we know that the Lordcreated everything in six days.
He rested on the seven, butwhat was the vehicle that he
used for creation?
It was communication.
It was his voice.
So, follow the template andcommunicate over and over and
(26:04):
over and over and over againuntil it happens.
So that's what I would tell youKeep it simple.
Obviously, we've got to do thework, but find out what the goal
is, make it measurable, put itup on the wall.
I would even tell you to put itout there with people.
Get an accountability partner.
Don't be a secret agent.
Put it out there Now.
Sometimes people don't do thatbecause, well, what if I fail?
(26:27):
Who cares?
Who cares?
Think about if I was going tohey, I'm going to, okay, I need
to lose some weight, I need todrop 10 pounds.
I do Imagine if I was like, oh,I'll just drop 10 pounds.
Yeah, imagine if I was like, ifI put it out there to everyone,
I'd be like, hey, I'm going todrop 10 pounds by this day.
Yeah, yeah, Then now they'regoing to hold us accountable.
(26:48):
You will go farther in lifewith somebody holding you
accountable than doing it onyour own.
So I guess that would be mykind of long-winded thing on
what to tell you, especially ifyou're a new entrepreneur, if
you're a business owner andyou've been in this business for
a while and you're not doingthat, then you need to
definitely do it.
But get your goals down, writethem up, put them on the wall.
(27:09):
Find somebody to hold youaccountable down, write them up,
put them on the wall.
Find somebody to hold youaccountable.
Put your vision up on a mirrorand speak life every single day.
Speak it out loud until ithappens.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, that accountability like hit.
I think so many times like wewant to not put it out there
because we don't want theaccountability, because we love
the comfort, we live in comfortand I think we have to step out
of that comfort in order to growyou're never going to grow
(27:42):
outside of that comfort.
So you know if it meansaccountability, that's what a
weight trainer does at the gym.
They hold hold you accountable.
Yeah, that's what a teacherdoes.
They hold you accountable towhatever they're teaching you,
right?
A mentor?
They're going to hold youaccountable, like you need
accountability.
We have accountabilitythroughout the Bible.
We're accountable to what we dohere on this earth, like we're
(28:06):
always accountable for ourchoices.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So put it out there and do it.
Yeah, so I talked a little bitabout the community at the
beginning.
I just for this last little bithere before we close this out.
I wanted to touch on this alittle bit that we're working on
in there.
I'm going to be doing somemarketing stuff, showing people
how to do use different toolsand live demonstrations and
(28:34):
trainings and things like that.
Um, I wanted to touch on kindof what they can expect from you
in there and how it can helpthem and go from there.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah.
So if you're thinking aboutbuilding something, or if you're
an entrepreneur, if you're abusiness owner, whatever level
one, two or three, you're goingto want to be part of it because
, one, you're going to be in anenvironment with other people
helping you, pouring in you,teaching you things that you
just don't know.
You just don't know.
You only know what you know, sothat's going to be key.
(29:05):
Uh, then you're going to getweekly coaching, so you're going
to be able to hop on, be pouredinto, learn, ask questions.
You're going to be able to hopon, be poured into, learn, ask
questions.
You're going to be in thisenvironment where you can do
that.
If you can't make it, we willrecord them and put them in
there, but you're going todefinitely want to try to make
the live ones, and that willjust be filled with a lot of
worksheets one sheets, you know,other things where you're going
(29:28):
to be able to go in there andlearn about specific items.
Here's the deal.
Like I always tell people, youknow you can spend a long time
trying to figure it on your own.
It can take you forever.
So the question is, why wouldyou do that?
You know, what I mean.
So learn from other people,people that have done it, people
that have done it at scale thatcould truly go in there and
(29:49):
help you.
So this environment is going tobe an amazing environment that
anyone serious if you're notserious, it's not going to be
for you.
We don't want you just to signup and you know, pay a monthly
and you don't do anything.
That's not what we're lookingfor.
We want it to be able to helppeople pull out that God-given
dream that has been deposited inyour heart and be, you know,
partners with you and help youget there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, and let us be that accountability partner for
you.
If you're worried thatsomebody's going to judge you,
come into the group.
We'll be your accountabilitypartner.
But we'll also be thatencourager on the sideline for
you as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, I like it, and let me give you your first
little exercise.
So if you are one where you'reworried about kind of what other
people think, I'm going to giveyou the first learning lesson,
step one, to becoming a leader.
You cannot worry about whatother people think, only worry
about what God thinks.
Yes, you know what I mean.
If you worry about what otherpeople think, you ain't leading
anybody.
Yep, right.
So kind of work that muscle,tune that out.
(30:48):
Worry about what God says andwhat God thinks.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
muscle tune that out, worry about what god says and
what god thinks, and thenultimately you're gonna you're
gonna be in good shape.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely well, welook forward to seeing you guys
on the website.
There will be a button on thereto get notified once that goes
live.
So go ahead and go on there,press the button if you're
interested, fill out the formand then you guys will be
notified as soon as that it goeslive.
Do you have anything elsebefore we close this out?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's it.
Have a great weekend, awesome.
See you next week.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You guys have a wonderful week.
We will see you next week.
Take care, bye.
Welcome back to the Grind, everybody.
Man.
Another amazing, awesome week.
We got some things coming downthe pipeline, some things in the
works.
Thekingdomgrindcom is going tobe available soon and we also
have a community that we'regoing to have available soon
Just feeding into businessowners weekly trainings, live
(00:21):
demonstrations a lot of coolthings coming up and super
excited about.
So just kind of wanted to startthe show off with that.
Um, also in the, wherever youlisten to podcasts, there's
usually a button at the top thatsays send a text.
You can click that and it'll godirectly to coach martin and I.
Um, so if you guys want to callor text into the show, go ahead
(00:42):
and feel free to do that.
Those are just a couple thingsI want to touch on before we get
started today.
So I have coach martin herewith me again.
How's it going?
Yeah, good.
How's it going, dylan?
Good you having a good week sofar?
Yeah, it's been good.
Yeah, it's awesome.
There was a couple things thatI wanted to touch on this week
um, chris and I had gone to aconference and, um, it was more
(01:04):
for like a hair, hair salon,hair industry, and one of the
things that came up wasleadership and how important
leadership is in your business,how much it impacts your team,
and I took away quite a fewthings on leadership and how we
should show up for our teams,and I just wanted to kind of
(01:26):
dive into that and see whereyour head is at as far as
leadership goes and then kind ofgo down that rabbit hole and
kind of have a back and forth onthat.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah.
So it's a good.
It's a good topic for sure.
I think it's a topic where youknow I got to definitely, you
know, think about it.
You don't want to be harsh whenyou.
You know I got to definitely,you know, think about it.
You don't want to be harsh whenyou, you know you say things,
but I think today leadership isis, you know, I really want to
(01:55):
use the word overrated, but notnot meaning that we don't need
leaders A hundred percent we do.
What I mean is, I think a lot oftimes, you know, we just throw
certain people in charge thatreally have no business being in
charge and we think they're aleader and then, ultimately, the
people that are underneath them, they're going to suffer
because the ceiling is low.
It's kind of like how high isyour ceiling in your house If
(02:16):
you go to a business?
The ceiling is higher.
It's the same way.
So having leadership that isover you, that they're very good
at what they do, they've beenable to move the needle wherever
they've been at and to trulylearn from them, to me is vital.
I think it's a must when itcomes to scaling.
Like I said, I think thedownfall with our society today
(02:39):
is everyone thinks they're aleader, and if your knowledge is
right here, how are you goingto get people to hear?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and I think that's
one thing I took away from thisweekend is, no matter where
you're at within your business,you could be doing $10 million a
year.
You can still be improving, andI think that's where it's vital
to have mentors One of thepeople I listened to they're
doing $250 million a year.
They still have a group ofmentors that they have around
(03:09):
them of people that have done500, 700 million, and I just
think it's going back to kind ofwhat we talked about last week
a little bit, as far as likecontinually learning and not
letting pride get in the way oflike, oh, I'm doing 10 million a
year, I'm good.
No, it's like we should alwaysbe in a state of learning and
like going to this conferencegetting fed by some you know
(03:30):
great speakers that I learned acouple things, you know, and
it's like I think as leaders, weshould always be, like the word
says, leading the way.
We should always be in thefront and not the back, right,
and so I just took away like howcan I be a better leader within
the salon?
How can I be a better leader inmy home?
How can I be a better leaderjust in?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
my life in general and the people that I surround
myself with.
So it's a good take.
I like it.
I do Um.
You know, and I think the thingabout it is, whenever people
are to the level where they'remaking seven, eight figures a
year or nine figures in thisparticular person's instance
usually by the time you getthere, you've been extremely
(04:18):
developed where it's now nolonger a question You're going
to have leaders, right?
I remember one of the gentlemenwas one of my mentors that the
last year I was with him he made$50 million but he had multiple
coaches that he hired.
You know what I mean.
Now, the outside, the layman,would say, well, why do you need
a coach?
You just made 50 mil.
But he's like, well, you don'tget it.
(04:38):
You know what I mean.
So, yeah, I agree with you andwhat happens is, honestly, the
more money you make and the moreyou develop and the more you
make really to be honest withyou the more coaches and mentors
and leaders you're going tohave over the top of you,
because you understand that it'slike the lifeblood of you know
of what it is that you need tobe able to get to, wherever it
(05:01):
is you're trying to get to.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, absolutely, wherever it is you're trying to
get to.
Yeah, absolutely, and I thinkthat kind of touches on.
Another point that I wanted totalk on today was hiring and
bringing a team on that you canlead.
I know a couple of people in mylife that own businesses but
they don't want to hire.
Like they're scared to hire andthey don't know the process and
they're comfortable wherethey're.
At which, you know, some peoplemay just be comfortable doing
(05:25):
it by themselves, but I think,using the excuse of like I don't
know what it looks like, I'mscared to hire somebody and then
fail, and it goes back to thatfailure mindset.
I think, though, at times, asleaders, we need to be able to
step up if we do want to growand step out in faith, and, you
know, hire those team membersthat can propel us to the next
(05:48):
level.
Like, we should not be doing a$10 an hour, $15, 20 an hour
task that can be outsourced.
We should be focusing on the$50 an hour, $100 an hour, $150
an hour task.
Right, and I think that's evenwhere I'm looking at.
Where in my life can I outsourcesome of these tasks, whether
it's a VA or whatever the casemay be.
(06:09):
How can I get more time back?
So, like, for an example, atthe salon, right, if it doesn't
get answered at the salon, thephone call then goes to my cell
phone.
I can pick up and manage thecall.
I could hire a VA for that.
Like there's no reason that Ishould be getting the phone
calls if it's not picked up atthe salon, right?
Like, yeah, the stylist at thesalon will call them back, but
(06:34):
you always want to try and getthat initial phone call because
you know you could always losethat client if you don't answer
the phone.
Yeah, so instead of just Icould take the phone call.
But that's an area where Icould outsource that for $10 an
hour, $15 an hour or per calland save all that time and
energy.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I do.
So there's a couple of piecesin there I want to touch on.
So if the audience doesn't knowwhat a VA is, that's virtual
assistant, um.
But ultimately I think, um one,you're right, as a business
owner, you want to get to thepoint where you're only dealing
with MMS, money-makingactivities.
So if it's not a money-makingactivity, you need to cut it,
have somebody else do it.
But I think what happens with a, with a thought process of a
(07:17):
lot of times we just, you know,we forget to make the main thing
the main thing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So, and what I mean by that is like, what's the main
thing?
Like why are you building thebusiness that you're building,
right?
What's the purpose?
So you fill that in and thenyou realize that you know, when
you're building a business, man,it's a lot of work, it's, you
know, you're not, you got toroll up the sleeves, you're
grinding.
It's kind of like the wholethought process the nine to five
(07:45):
pays the bills, but the five tonine builds the legacy and it's
many, many of those days, ifnot years, and years, and years.
But the thing about it is youwant to get to the point
eventually where you utilizethat money to buy back your time
.
So if you're not doing that,then you're missing the boat.
And I'll give you an example,and I won't mention the name.
(08:05):
I know I have a friend of minewho his father is very, very
wealthy.
He's built a very good life,built a very big business, made
a lot of money.
And you know we were havingthis conversation and he was
talking about how his fatherreally wasn't around a whole lot
.
And I get it now at thebeginning right, you're building
in, all not, but you got to thepoint where he should have
(08:26):
hired all that out.
You can get.
So like caught up in the hey,I'm working all the time.
You want to get to the pointwhere you start buying back your
time.
Time's a limit of resource.
Money is not.
So, once you're building yourbusiness, start scaling.
Yes, you got to you.
Hire employees.
Start with VAs, hire employees,hire people that you can.
(08:47):
And it's actually twofold Oneyou get to buy back your time
and now spend the time with yourfamily, people that you love,
check.
But also I look at like man.
I get to pour into my employees.
I get to empower them.
I get to teach them things thatthey ain't going to learn
outside of here.
You know what I mean.
So now I have the opportunityto kind of like be that person
(09:08):
that's going to be able to pourinto them, get them thinking
bigger, help them so that'llserve them one day.
So I kind of look at it likeboth.
Yes, we're doing ourselves aservice to be able to have time
to spend with our family and thepeople we love, but we're also
every single employee that wecan hire.
We could change their life.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, no, absolutely Like this conference that we
went to.
We had taken our manager withus and she was able to get
poured into, and I think, asChristian business owners, we
should be pouring into thepeople that work for us just
like we would anybody else.
It was funny.
Well, not funny, but at thisconference you know, the the
(09:48):
hair industry is very muchdemonic.
There's just like a lot ofdemonic activity, like things
that are just not Christianoriented.
Right, and one of the speakershad gone up on stage and was
doing some like teaching peoplesome weird stuff.
Well, chris and I were juststanding there and we have our,
you know, manager with us.
(10:11):
She sees us just standing there,not participating, and then she
chooses not to participate andit's like now we're feeding that
into her of like, hey, thisisn't okay, we're going to stand
up for the truth, whether we,whether we're the only ones not
doing it or not.
Right, and Crystal and I werejust sitting there praying and
praying the blood of Jesus and,you know, once it was all said
(10:31):
and done, the speaker says youknow, did anyone like whatever?
They asked the question andthis little old man raised his
hand and she called him up onstage and I told Crystal Jesus
needs to be brought to thisindustry.
This guy gets up on stage andhe's like I just want to give
(10:53):
all the glory to Jesus, I justwant to like I pray to Jesus, I
get my comfort from Jesus, andhe's like, talking about Jesus,
jesus and the speaker that wasdoing this stuff just started
bawling on stage and it's likeeveryone else, even if they're
Christian, they're all in theredoing this stuff that she was
saying.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
But it's like.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It takes the light and the darkness to reveal those
things.
And not only did you know wesit there and pray and then this
man step up and present Jesusin this type of environment, but
our employees saw the power ofJesus through this whole thing
as well.
You know, and I think that's asChristian business owners we
(11:34):
have to step into that and pourthat into our employees.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I think it kind of even taps into you, go back
to, you know, going back to, toleadership, right, you, you,
your job as a leader is to setthe tone.
You know your job as a leaderis to lead from the front.
I've heard people say like,leave from the middle, leave
from the back.
No, you're not a leader, you'renot leading anybody.
You lead from the front.
You set the tone and andstudies were done.
(11:58):
There was a study done once,dylan, where they took like I
don't know, it was like 50people.
They put them in a room, theygave them all a question and it
was the wrong.
It was, uh, like, whatever thequestion was, hey, you know,
what do you see?
And then, um, it was set upwhere, like, the first 20 people
would say something totallyopposite of what the answer was,
but it was the same answer overand over and over again yeah so
(12:20):
then, when it got to the peoplethat weren't actors in this
study, they all agreed with thelie.
You know what I mean.
So when you like, look at humanbehavior, that's what happens
so a lot of times, like if we'renot leading from the front, if
we're not like, hey, no, thisisn't acceptable.
What happens is everybodystarts doing it, and not only
everyone starts it.
Now the people that areunderneath you end up doing it
(12:43):
as well.
So you've got to give creditfor that man to be bold, to be
able to go up there, and hecould have got ridiculed, and he
just did it.
And not only did he do it, butGod always honors obedience, and
I think that's where a bigproblem is.
Most people aren't willing tobe obedient and they're not
willing to move their feet.
He raised his hand.
(13:04):
He could have got ridiculed.
He went up on stage and he wasobedient and you saw, obviously,
what the Lord did with it.
Amazing story.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, no, it kind of put things in the Bible in
perspective for me, because Ithink of, like Paul and all
these like people that were inthe Bible going to these places
where they're heavy into demonicactivity, and and how Chris and
I felt in that moment of likeat first, of just like standing
there while everyone else isdoing everything, like it could
feel awkward, like it could feellike man we're, we're going
(13:35):
against a hundred percent ofthese people, almost, you know,
and it just puts things intoperspective as far as the Bible
goes.
Like man, what were they goingthrough when they were going
into these cities and towns?
Right, I was just like man.
I couldn't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh yeah, I mean, honestly, everything's spiritual
anyways.
So when you really think aboutit, you know what I mean.
You see something crazy goingon and it's not that there's
craziness going on, there'sspiritual, there's spirits and
demonic stuff that's making thatstuff go on, right.
So that's the crazy thing aboutit.
But you know they had to gothrough that.
(14:14):
But here's the interestingthing that craziness has been
going on since the beginning oftime, right, but it subsided
when those people were bold,paul, they took the gospel, they
, they did, and they drove outall that craziness.
Now a lot of them obviouslylost their life and they did the
thing that they had to do.
But, man, you talk about agreat example of a leader yeah
(14:35):
that's a leader right there.
He didn't care what happened tohim.
He didn't care if he was thrownin jail.
Most of us would be crying andcomplaining, and I can't believe
this has happened to me.
He didn't care.
He was like no, because heunderstood that it was all
spiritual, Like he had to, hehad.
He had a work to do to drivethis nonsense out, and and and,
obviously not to get too deepinto it.
(14:56):
But we're in a country that youcould see what's going on, Same
thing right, when half thestuff that's going on is demonic
.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I wanted to get your take on this piece a
little bit.
It was interesting.
There was two speakers theother ones were just talking
about business stuff but twospeakers one was about
meditation, the other one wasdoing the other stuff and what I
found very, very interestingwas a lot of their principles.
You could pull from the wordyeah.
(15:25):
But what I had noticed and youknow this has been talked about
widely is like what satan doesis he pulls god's word and then
moves it towards yourself.
He doesn't even move it towardshim.
He makes you start thinkingabout yourself rather than
others, and that's what I hadseen with even like the
meditation is like, oh, yourinner self, and it's all about
(15:47):
self, self, self and takingJesus out of what they're
actually doing.
So I wanted to get your takebecause I thought it was just
fascinating and interesting,like how some of these
principles are in the Bible thatthey're doing, but they're
changing it from Jesus tothemselves.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and that's been going on for a long time as
well.
So what happens is you'll haveand we always mess stuff up, but
I think again, it's spiritualright you, it's, there's a
demonic piece going on to it.
So when you, when you look atit, like you think of a think of
a video game I don't, I'venever been in the games, but
let's just say you're in thegames.
Whatever that game is, Somebodycreated that game.
(16:26):
They put all the rules in place,how you got to operate.
When you lose, you do thesethings.
You lose to get coins.
You know what I mean?
It's all like Mario golf, yeah,process.
So God created everything andall the rules within it, and if
(16:47):
you follow the rules there'sreward.
If you don't follow the rules,you get in trouble.
It's very simple, right?
So the thing about it is thatthe rules that he puts in place,
the principles I like to callthem the success principles they
work for everybody, whether youbelieve in the Lord or not,
because his word is true and theprinciple will work.
But what's happened issometimes will people will find
(17:11):
a thing that works, a principlethat works, and then what
they'll do is they'll serve theprinciple instead of the person
that created the principle yeahthat makes sense, and I think
that's where we get lost.
That's why you see thesereligions that are based around
like you know, know, meditationor you know whatever you know
speaking, and all of this stuff,when in reality it's a
(17:33):
principle that the Lord put in.
But it's never about theprinciple, it's about the person
that created it or the God thatcreated it, and that's why
that's where we differ from them, because we know that God
created these principles.
We worship the Lord, we do theprinciples because he tells us
to do it.
They more don't understand thatand they worship the principle.
(17:54):
So that's where the thing is.
But yeah, you want to, andthere's power, there's power in
you know, there's power andthere's truth in all of these
things and when you look at itfrom a surface, like you know
the things they do, they work.
The problem is what we talkedabout.
It's not.
We're not worshiping theprinciple.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, and I think that's what I found
fascinating, especially withlike the meditation, like
meditating within yourself andfinding peace within yourself.
I'm like I'm pretty sure theword says meditate on the word.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like the Bible, talks about meditating on the word.
But society, or you know peoplethat believe in the principle,
meditating, they're finding itwithin themselves, which is
obviously from Satan, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, there was a quite a few things that I
took away from this weekend andI think leadership, employees
and like showing that leadershipto employees, because it was
cool, because our manager shewas, she just didn't understand
like the business side of thingsand just kind of like, I think,
(19:00):
as a leader, sometimes you kindof know what's going on behind
the scenes but your team doesn't.
And I think that's wheretransparency comes in.
So it's like crystal and I arelike, oh, we need to do this, we
need to do that, and likenobody has a context that we
have, and they're like why do weneed to do all this?
So I thought it was cool too.
Like with her going to thisevent, she started seeing some
of the context of like whatcrystal and I were you, why we
(19:24):
have been presenting all thisstuff, or like the directions
that we've been wanting to takewithin the business, and so, man
, I think after this conference,like I get it, and it fed her
in a way to where now she wantsto step up and do more, because
now she has the context.
And I think one thing I tookaway from that is just
transparency, even transparencywith your team of like hey, this
(19:49):
is what's going on, which iswhy we need to do this, and now
you can get everybody to rallybehind the one objective, and I
think it's so important to haveyour team behind you rather than
you trying to like do this, dothat, do this, do that, like no,
let's all get on the same pageand work on this together so we
can all go up.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah so I like it, I do, I.
I mean I, I'm one where, youknow, I'm a believer there's a,
you know, a divide on this, butI'm a believer that you hire, uh
, for culture, yeah, and thenyou train up and you know what I
mean.
And it's just interesting andI've, you know, been in a
position where I've hired a lotof people and I've had to fire a
lot of people.
(20:29):
You know what I mean and youknow you always feel bad.
You know when you have to firesomebody, but you know when
somebody wasn't willing to give100% and do the work, then you
don't feel as bad.
You know what I mean.
But you know, for me that wouldkind of be a non-negotiable.
I'd have to have somebody thatwas driven, that was whatever
the case, and if they weren't,they would be working somewhere
(20:51):
else.
I would have to let them go.
You know what I mean.
But it's kind of like you havefour tires, but if one of them
is flat, how far is your cargoing?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So you've got to make sure that, yeah, as you start
growing, you want to make surethat, yeah, as a you know, as
you start, as you start growing,you want to make sure that
everyone, hey, here's ourobjective.
And that's why I think that youknow your vision and your goals
and stuff should be up on thewall, where everybody sees it.
So, you know, it's kind of likewhat the Lord said right, make
the vision, write it and make itplain, put on the wall that he
(21:21):
that reads it may read it andrun.
Yeah, I think that you want tobe like, hey, this is a goal,
we're all on board, we all good,okay, cool, like, now, let's do
it.
You know, I mean, you don'thave somebody that's going to be
that flat tire, that's going tobe complaining at the water
cooler like, oh, this sucks,it's whatever.
Yeah, you, you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You got to cut those yeah, and I think the biggest
piece is like the hiring processfirst, like let's be proactive
rather than reactive.
You know, like if we could cutthem out before even bringing
them on, that's the bestscenario.
And I think putting thatmission, vision and those core
values in place, presentingthose to people beforehand, um,
(22:02):
having certain questions thatyou look you know to ask during
the interview process that alignwith your guys's goals, for
example, like we had somebodyreach out to a salon wanting a
position and we are looking forsomebody part-time right now,
but I had sent our missionstatement, our vision statement,
our core values, all this, andthen she responded with okay, so
(22:23):
do we still get paid?
I don't even remember what shesaid, because as soon as she
responded like okay, and then dowe still get paid?
Blah, blah, blah, I'm likeyou're not the right culture fit
.
Like, just from that oneresponse alone, you're not even
going to come in for aninterview.
So I think having those systemsin place beforehand could save
(22:45):
you so much time and headache onthe backend.
My little secret if you're lateto the first interview, you're
not getting hired.
Yeah, and crystal laughs Causein all of our employees know
this now.
So, like if somebody does comein for an interview and they're
late in their heads, they'relike well, that sucks.
(23:05):
Cause that's like one of mynon-negotiables is being late.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know you got to do better
than that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Which, at this conference as well, this lady
had mentioned a study that theydid.
It was NASA and they couldpredict who would be a leader
within the company simply by,and what they would do is the
person interviewing would comein, trip and fall and, depending
on the person that they weregoing to interview's response to
(23:36):
them tripping and falling andthe way they laughed or went
about the situation you couldtell if they were going to be a
leader or not 100% of the time,which I thought was interesting.
Just in your initial response tosomething like that can show if
you're going to have a leaderor not.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah Well, just think of the process of testing that,
how long that took, how manypeople they had to go through to
be able to get the right datato be able to determine that.
It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, for sure.
Do you have any tips, tricksfor business owners this week
that you would like to share orthat came up this week?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, good question.
So you know, I, I would say if,if I'm talking to a bit
depending on the business owner,right, but if we're talking to
a new business owner, I wouldalways say kind of the same
thing that I tell everybody.
You know, stop stop focusing onthe money.
You know, I get it.
I do get it.
We all have to live.
We got to pay the bills, we gotto put food on the table but
(24:34):
ultimately, at the end of theday, the Lord's not going to let
us go hungry.
So stop focusing about on themoney.
Remember why you started right,write it down.
Figure out what those goals are.
Make sure the goals aremeasurable, not just like, oh, I
want to do better.
No, they got to be measurable.
(24:54):
I do this all the time,especially with my children.
I do that now.
They're good at it now, but atfirst they'd give me like, well,
I want to lose weight, well,what does that mean?
No, give me something I canmeasure, give me an amount.
So find out what your goal is,make it measurable, put it up on
the wall and I would and Iwould say honestly, speak life
into it.
I would tell you like everysingle day I mean, obviously,
(25:17):
you got to do the work.
You got to do the work, you gotto do the things that you need
to do.
That's a given.
We're not talking about that.
But I'm saying you need tospeak life into your business.
Every day, before you start, Icould tell you that I've my big
goal right in the bathroom andin the very every day, at five
o'clock in the morning.
That's when it's going to start.
So, man, I tell you, do it,speak into it, speak life into
(25:42):
your business, and I'm going togive it.
I'm going to go back.
Let's look at the template.
Right, we know that the Lordcreated everything in six days.
He rested on the seven, butwhat was the vehicle that he
used for creation?
It was communication.
It was his voice.
So, follow the template andcommunicate over and over and
(26:04):
over and over and over againuntil it happens.
So that's what I would tell youKeep it simple.
Obviously, we've got to do thework, but find out what the goal
is, make it measurable, put itup on the wall.
I would even tell you to put itout there with people.
Get an accountability partner.
Don't be a secret agent.
Put it out there Now.
Sometimes people don't do thatbecause, well, what if I fail?
(26:27):
Who cares?
Who cares?
Think about if I was going tohey, I'm going to, okay, I need
to lose some weight, I need todrop 10 pounds.
I do Imagine if I was like, oh,I'll just drop 10 pounds.
Yeah, imagine if I was like, ifI put it out there to everyone,
I'd be like, hey, I'm going todrop 10 pounds by this day.
Yeah, yeah, Then now they'regoing to hold us accountable.
(26:48):
You will go farther in lifewith somebody holding you
accountable than doing it onyour own.
So I guess that would be mykind of long-winded thing on
what to tell you, especially ifyou're a new entrepreneur, if
you're a business owner andyou've been in this business for
a while and you're not doingthat, then you need to
definitely do it.
But get your goals down, writethem up, put them on the wall.
(27:09):
Find somebody to hold youaccountable down, write them up,
put them on the wall.
Find somebody to hold youaccountable.
Put your vision up on a mirrorand speak life every single day.
Speak it out loud until ithappens.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, that accountability like hit.
I think so many times like wewant to not put it out there
because we don't want theaccountability, because we love
the comfort, we live in comfortand I think we have to step out
of that comfort in order to growyou're never going to grow
(27:42):
outside of that comfort.
So you know if it meansaccountability, that's what a
weight trainer does at the gym.
They hold hold you accountable.
Yeah, that's what a teacherdoes.
They hold you accountable towhatever they're teaching you,
right?
A mentor?
They're going to hold youaccountable, like you need
accountability.
We have accountabilitythroughout the Bible.
We're accountable to what we dohere on this earth, like we're
(28:06):
always accountable for ourchoices.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So put it out there and do it.
Yeah, so I talked a little bitabout the community at the
beginning.
I just for this last little bithere before we close this out.
I wanted to touch on this alittle bit that we're working on
in there.
I'm going to be doing somemarketing stuff, showing people
how to do use different toolsand live demonstrations and
(28:34):
trainings and things like that.
Um, I wanted to touch on kindof what they can expect from you
in there and how it can helpthem and go from there.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah.
So if you're thinking aboutbuilding something, or if you're
an entrepreneur, if you're abusiness owner, whatever level
one, two or three, you're goingto want to be part of it because
, one, you're going to be in anenvironment with other people
helping you, pouring in you,teaching you things that you
just don't know.
You just don't know.
You only know what you know, sothat's going to be key.
(29:05):
Uh, then you're going to getweekly coaching, so you're going
to be able to hop on, be pouredinto, learn, ask questions.
You're going to be able to hopon, be poured into, learn, ask
questions.
You're going to be in thisenvironment where you can do
that.
If you can't make it, we willrecord them and put them in
there, but you're going todefinitely want to try to make
the live ones, and that willjust be filled with a lot of
worksheets one sheets, you know,other things where you're going
(29:28):
to be able to go in there andlearn about specific items.
Here's the deal.
Like I always tell people, youknow you can spend a long time
trying to figure it on your own.
It can take you forever.
So the question is, why wouldyou do that?
You know, what I mean.
So learn from other people,people that have done it, people
that have done it at scale thatcould truly go in there and
(29:49):
help you.
So this environment is going tobe an amazing environment that
anyone serious if you're notserious, it's not going to be
for you.
We don't want you just to signup and you know, pay a monthly
and you don't do anything.
That's not what we're lookingfor.
We want it to be able to helppeople pull out that God-given
dream that has been deposited inyour heart and be, you know,
partners with you and help youget there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, and let us be that accountability partner for
you.
If you're worried thatsomebody's going to judge you,
come into the group.
We'll be your accountabilitypartner.
But we'll also be thatencourager on the sideline for
you as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, I like it, and let me give you your first
little exercise.
So if you are one where you'reworried about kind of what other
people think, I'm going to giveyou the first learning lesson,
step one, to becoming a leader.
You cannot worry about whatother people think, only worry
about what God thinks.
Yes, you know what I mean.
If you worry about what otherpeople think, you ain't leading
anybody.
Yep, right.
So kind of work that muscle,tune that out.
(30:48):
Worry about what God says andwhat God thinks.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
muscle tune that out, worry about what god says and
what god thinks, and thenultimately you're gonna you're
gonna be in good shape.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely well, welook forward to seeing you guys
on the website.
There will be a button on thereto get notified once that goes
live.
So go ahead and go on there,press the button if you're
interested, fill out the formand then you guys will be
notified as soon as that it goeslive.
Do you have anything elsebefore we close this out?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's it.
Have a great weekend, awesome.
See you next week.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You guys have a wonderful week.
We will see you next week.
Take care, bye.
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