Balancing Friendship and Accountability: One Dad's Journey with Travis Webb

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What happens when a builder's hands meet a teacher's heart? Travis Webb, VP of Sales at PARQA and father of three nearly-grown children, joins us to share how his unique upbringing created the blueprint for his parenting approach.

Travis reveals how his father, a union electrician turned entrepreneur, equipped him with both literal and figurative tools for life – teaching him to build everything from skateboard ramps as a kid to the tiki bar with electricity and plumbing that now stands in his backyard. Meanwhile, his mother's 44-year teaching career instilled in him a patience and calm demeanor that balances his entrepreneurial drive. This blend has shaped not only his successful career in staffing and sales leadership, but also his thoughtful approach to raising three children who are now 23, 21, and 18.

The conversation explores a provocative question: can you be friends with your kids? Travis challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that friendship and accountability aren't mutually exclusive when you know how to "flip the switch" between roles. He shares candid stories about navigating disagreements with his teenage daughter, learning when to engage and when to step back, and prioritizing presence at his children's activities despite demanding work commitments.

One particularly insightful moment comes when Casey and Travis discuss a question that transformed both his business and parenting approaches: "Do you want to be right or do you want to get what you want?" This simple but profound question has helped him check his ego and focus on outcomes rather than winning arguments—whether in the boardroom or at the dinner table.

As his children transition to adulthood, Travis reflects on the bittersweet reality of watching them leave home while celebrating their independence. 

For younger parents, his experiences with youth sports, travel tournaments, and building lasting memories offer valuable perspective on what truly matters in the long run.

Ready to rethink your approach to leadership—whether at home or in business? Listen now and discover how blending compassion with accountability might just be the blueprint you've been searching for.

PARQA is a technology consulting and implementation agency for the staffing industry dedicated to making your technologies work for you, driving measurable business outcomes from your technical investment. Our expertise spans the Salesforce & Bullhorn ecosystems.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hi, I'm Riley and I'm Ryder and this is my dad show.
Hey everybody, it's CaseyJaycox with the quarterback dad
cast.
Welcome to season six, and Icould not be more excited to
have you join me for anotheryear of fantastic episodes and
conversations really unscriptedand raw and authentic

(00:24):
conversations with dads.
If you're new to this podcast,really it's simple.
It's a podcast where weinterview dads, we learn about
how they were raised, we learnabout the life lessons that were
important to them, we learnabout the values that are
important to them and really welearn about how we can work hard
to become a better quarterbackor leader of our home.
So let's sit back, relax andlisten to today's episode on the

(00:48):
Quarterback Dadcast.
Well, hey, everybody, it'sCasey Jaycox.
Welcome to season six of theQuarterback Dadcast.
I'm excited for our next guest,who I'm surprised our paths have
not crossed sooner, because wehave like 170 some plus odd
connections in common, but we do, and I was referred to him by
the one and only, randall Thomas.
And our next guest is TravisWebb, the VP of vice president
sales at Parka.
But he's a staffing executive,a veteran, and now he's into

(01:12):
great things at Parka.
He's a golfer, found out, he'sa.
He's a blue collar guy that'sfighting off a sports hernia,
but he's not.
He's a tough dad.
We've got his dad trying towork and but, more importantly
with he's not, he's a tough dad.
We've got his dad trying towork in.
But, more importantly, with allthat said, we're not here to
talk to Travis as much aboutthat.
We're here to talk about Travisthe dad, and how he's working

(01:33):
hard to become that ultimatequarterback or leader of his
household.
So, without further ado, mrWebb, welcome to the quarterback
, dad cast.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Thank you.
Thank you very much for havingme and real quick shout out to
Randall.
Randall graduated with hisdegree from Florida State
University on Saturday, so Iactually went and attended his
celebration Saturday night.
So I got to spend a few hourswith Randall to celebrate him
going back to college andknocking that out after being in
the workforce for many years.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
That a boy.
Whenever I I had a, I had a.
This is so random, but I'mgoing to give you a nickname for
him If you want one.
You might want to call him TooHot to Handle, randall.
I had a guy in high school thatcalled himself that.
I'm like I don't know if youcan do your own nickname, but
hey, you do you.
Nice, okay.
So, joking aside now, we alwaysstart out each episode with

(02:16):
gratitude, so tell me, what areyou?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
most grateful for as a dad today.
I'm grateful for my family ingeneral, right, I think, every
day when I wake up and justexcited for I'm blessed with a
wife of almost 25 years, threekids, everybody's doing good, um
, knock on wood, you know nomajor, uh, no major obstacles in
life right now for any of them,and so I'm always excited to
see that Love it, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Um, I'm grateful for, um, a couple of things.
One I'm grateful for a couplethings One I'm grateful for my
daughter finally wanted to gogolfing, but it wasn't with me,
it was with her boyfriend and Iwas like, hey, I can either
fight it and be like what thehell?
I've asked if I need to go golfall these times.
But her boyfriend wanted totake her.
So, hey, and my goal?
I'm grateful for the fact thatshe's going to maybe go out and
want to golf more.
She want to golf more becauseit's um, she's one of those

(03:06):
younger athletes that she pickedup golf really easy.
First time she goes out andplay shoots 51 qualifies for a
golf tournament.
Um, and she's like, yeah, I'mdone, dad, I just want to play
basketball instead.
I'm like, oh, my God, you'renine years old and you shot 51.
Like this is.
She's like, no, don't do it.
So and then I'm grateful for myson, who's um is in college, and
my wife's parents, grandma,grandpa.
They went down and visit himthis weekend for just to kind of

(03:27):
see what his college is like,and he I'm just grateful that he
embraced it and had a blast,and he, grandma, grandpa, took
him to breakfast and then hetook grandpa to the driving
range where he's playing collegegolf and just like showed him
around and then they went todinner and he was just like
happy and just like sent uspictures.
Me and my wife are like I thinkwe're doing a good job here.
Let's keep on this path, but itwas just grateful for their

(03:49):
time to get to spend together.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, just be careful what you wish for.
Taking your daughter golfing.
We may have talked about this,but I went on vacation a few
weeks back and played up in themountains and my 18 year old
daughter beat me for the firsttime.
She's not letting me let thatdown.
She reminds me frequently.
But it's cool to see your kidsthrive in anything, whether it's
sports or school or just lifein general.

(04:12):
It's a cool experience.
It's a humbling one too, assomebody who's attempted to play
golf for many years.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, my son, my daughter.
If she beats me I would beshocked, because she doesn't
take it by my son.
I quickly got that humble check.
He's a plus one, so he beats menow all the time, but I can
still get them occasionally fromtime to time.
But yeah, man, that's very wellsaid, all right, well, bring me
inside the web huddle.

(04:39):
I'd love to learn how you andyour wife met and then talk a
little bit about each member ofthe team love to learn how you
and your wife met and then talka little bit about each member
of the team.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, so I actually met my wife working at a grocery
store here in Jacksonvillecalled Publix, during college.
So I know you're Northwest,it's not a Northwest thing yet.
It'll get there eventually.
It's growing like crazy, butkind of like the higher end
grocery store here in theSoutheast.
So I had gone to college for acouple of years.
I came home for the summer, metmy wife.
Ended up school was neverreally my thing ended up, not

(05:10):
going back, came, stayed homeand finished school here locally
but met my wife working there.
We have three children.
So my oldest, aiden, justturned 23.
He's already graduated college.
He's moved out of the house,flown the coop, he's out doing
his own thing I have.
My middle child is Jacob, who's21.
Jacob's living at home, got agreat job and kind of like me,

(05:34):
trying to figure out what hewants to do in life at that age.
That's kind of how I was.
And then my youngest daughteryoungest my daughter, caitlin,
is 18, a couple of weeks awayfrom graduating high school and
then she'll be heading toTallahassee to Florida State
University to hopefully for onlyfour years and knock out
college and see where life takesher from there.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
There we go.
So Publix, this is reallyrandom, but do you ever do?
Who Bob does sports is, yes,he's hilarious and I think he's
in that like somewhere south,maybe South Florida, but I think
he doesn in that you're likesomewhere south, maybe south
florida, but I think he doesn't.
Doesn't do like little videosabout publics and I believe so.
The grocery store, oh, my god,he had.
He had one recently where itwas um the one about like he was

(06:16):
picking up bagels, um, but theyweren't bagels, or like
freaking dinner rolls.
He just torched the the vendor.
I think it's like I foundeinstein bagels guys, but it was
the funniest thing ever.
But um so each.
How does that feel to havealmost three kids out of the
house?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Uh, it's, it's um, it's exciting and kind of sad at
the same time, if I'm beinghonest.
Like it's, uh, it's always.
If you have kids, you know it'sfun to raise them and get them
to a certain point.
It's also really cool to seethem go out and do their own
thing.
So, um, it's really bothemotions right.
Like it's exciting to see themgo flourish, but, um, you miss

(06:54):
them too.
So it's exciting.
My son came over Saturdaymorning, spent a few hours with
us, uh, which was cool, um, butyeah, you know I joke around
with my daughter.
I said as soon as you leave forcollege, I'm turning your room
into a golf simulator and that'sour kind of ongoing joke right
now, but uh, no, it's, it's,it's good.
Like I said, I, I I say it allthe time Having your uh, your

(07:17):
kids as your friends on LinkedInis kind of a new experience to
you, right, like when you're outin the corporate world so, too,
right, like when you're out inthe corporate world, so it's
cool to encourage and see yourkids excel there and then see
them liking and commenting onyour posts.
That's kind of a neat new thinghere over the last year or so.
But no, it's good.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
It's a fun time.
Well, I know, I mean you mademe when you said happy and sad.
I mean I know what that's likewhen you're a kid.
I mean I only have a freshmanin college, but like when he,
every time we got to say goodbyeto him, it's like fricking
someone's cut onions in thehouse.
You know, it's just you get,you don't realize how, and it
just sneaks up and you're likeoh dude, I'm not going to see

(08:00):
this guy for like two months.
Yeah, you know.
And it never gets easier.
For all the cliches are true,time goes by way too fast.
Days are short, years are long.
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, and it's interesting too.
The topic of conversation atDara last night with my daughter
was, you know she was asking meand my wife hey, are you guys
going to cry at my high schoolgraduation?
And we're like, what do youmean?
She's like, well, you cried forAiden.
She's like, I don't even knowif you cried for Jacob, but are
you going to cry for me?
Like it's just, it's aninteresting dynamic.
So my oldest son graduatedduring COVID, right.
So that was like a wholedifferent deal.
We got to watch.
My kids have all gone toCatholic school, so we it was
just the two sitting in thechurch, but it was just

(08:41):
interesting, right.
So that's a topic ofconversation right now where my
daughter gives us a little crapabout it.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Wow, well, I love the competitive gene in her.
Yes, and also how cool that yousaid kids on LinkedIn.
I mean, if they're commentingon dad's posts, I'm going to
have to get their info andconnect them and tag them on
this post when it comes out sothey can hear dad tell some
stories that maybe they have notheard before, without a doubt.
Um, well, bring me back.

(09:10):
Um, I always like to ask thisquestion, travis, like when?
So tell me what was life?
Tell me what was life likegrowing up for you, and I'd love
to hear you know about thevalues that were instilled and
important to you, um, from yourparents, and maybe a story or
two that kind of backs them up.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, so mom was a school teacher for 44 years.
So right out of college went tobe a teacher young you know and
did that for 44 years.
My dad was a union electricianlate seventies, early eighties.
He got into gold and silver,became an entrepreneur, owned a
jewelry shop and did that formany years before eventually

(09:47):
retiring.
So mom always had that kind ofcalm teacher demeanor where dad
had that entrepreneurial side,was always working.
And you know, the one thing Igive my dad a ton of credit for
is, yes, he bought us reallycool toys and gifts, but he also
bought us tools and so we werealways hands-on.

(10:07):
So when you're 10 years old andyou get a craftsman toolbox and
a hammer and and stuff and youlearn how to build.
You know, we built skateboardramps when we were little, like
we built our own.
We didn't go buy it or paysomebody, um.
So people always ask me likeTravis, what do you like?
Like, I like to be a builder, Ilike to be hands on, I like to
see things get completed and Itake that back to like that

(10:28):
values that my dad put in mewhen I was younger.
And then I look at from mom'sside.
I think I got my mom's demeanorand kind of the I don't know,
I'm a pretty social person,right, like obviously I have to
be in the job that I do, butlike I've got a very calm
demeanor.
I don't get fired up easy.
If you get me worked up you'vedone something really good.

(10:51):
It's just not my style, but Iget that from my mom.
So I think I get that side ofit, although as an English
teacher she would murder me whenshe saw the way I wrote and
couldn't read it and, like Isaid, I get that from her.
The education side, the schoolpiece was just like I said,
never was really my thing.
So you know that I look at whatI take from each one of them is

(11:13):
that.
So I think you know I got aperfect kind of blend of that
hands on builder type,entrepreneurial spirit, outgoing
for my dad, and then that kindof calm, just personable
demeanor from my mother.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
How does someone go electrician into gold, to
jewelry?
That doesn't seem like thenatural transition.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I don't know, it was a heck of a transition, because
it was.
I mean, there was even morethan that.
I mean after the gold andsilver it was a firearms deal,
like there was a whole lot thatwent on there, just always had
the hustle.
And then I mean my dad's mideighties now, um Saturday
mornings he still gets up and hedoes garage sales now, like he
still has that mentality of he'swants to get out and go, you

(11:56):
know, see what he can.
He can, uh, earn a couple ofbucks at a garage sale or do
whatever he can do, like even tothis day, at almost 86, he
still thinks he's 18, which isgetting interesting and fun.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
But you know, that's just, it's that's his mindset is
always like that it's alwaysgoing when do you think that
came from for him?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I think he grew up in a in a, I'd say I don't know if
I'd call it poor, but, you know, just in a household where
there wasn't a lot, and I thinkthat was something that he
didn't want to experienceanymore and he wanted to make
sure that he provided for me andmy brother and my mom.
So, you know, he's always justbeen one that the kind of that

(12:40):
old school mentality of the mantakes care of the house and it's
his responsibility and, um, Ithink that's what really drove
him to make sure that we all hada good life and a good setup
and and, um, you know, he tookcare of us doing that Love it.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's always interesting to sometimes think
back and like, as you say, likeyou know, a good sales leader
has to be calm, has to instillconfidence, has to remove fear
it's my opinion, um, but havethe hustle too.
So it's like, and it makessense, why you've had a success,
successful career in sales,sales leadership, because it's
nice blend of mom and dad, ofteaching, but also hustle too.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, and I look back at most of my roles, like even
in leadership, there's aproduction element to it, right,
and I've always believed inthat.
You have to pay for yourselfmentality, you know, especially
working for larger organizations.
If you're just a sales leaderand you know, times get tough,
it's you, in my personal opinion.
You're an easy target, right.
Right, you're not drivingrevenue.
So I've always liked to havethat kind of combo of hey, I can

(13:39):
lead, but at the same time too,I want to be bringing, I want
to be paying for myself to where.
It's not a question of that.
So you know, I look back.
When I was at Robert Half, Imean I had you know branches and
then kind of most of Florida,but I was still in production
when I went to Motus.
It was at first out ofproduction.
It was like, hey, we want youto produce.
And I got right back into it,right.

(14:01):
So I always love that element,because I do like to keep my
hands dirty.
And then in my role at Parco Iam.
I do sales every day, so youknow I'm in production and what
we're doing.
So I think I've got that.
I've got that entrepreneurialbug.
I can't sit still.
It's just not my, not my nature.
I'd much rather have mycalendar overflowing than
nothing on it, because I justsit here and be bored to death.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
have my calendar overflowing than nothing on it,
because I just sit here and I'dbe bored to death right.
Um well, you're lucky thatyou're handy man.
I I am.
I would say I'm a um, jv or cteam the handy guy.
I just my mind.
I don't have the engineeringmind to like see it.
But then, but once someone likekind of explains it, I see it
and it's it like connects, I'mlike, oh, we can do that, and so
like I'll be your great secondhand for you.

(14:44):
But if it's like, hey, you gotto go figure this thing out,
like my wife is a beast withthat stuff, her dad's like
macgyver I've said the jokebefore and you know, I think, as
a guy that works in my line ofwork, which I didn't mean to do
but this found me like workingon ego and humility and being
vulnerable, and we don't have tohave all the answers Like I now
like more celebrate the factthat I'm not super handy and I

(15:05):
could be like that's my one ofmy gaps.
Okay, let's try, you know, tryto do something about it.
But but it's cool that yourpops taught you those things.
Besides the skateboard round,what was the coolest thing you
ever, besides that you built?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh man, I mean, I've built all kinds of stuff, you
know, even I mean I've built allkinds of stuff, you know, even
as I've gotten older, for mykids, whether it's, you know,
play sets or whatever.
You know, like I'm not, I'm notwilling to go spend $5,000 on a
play set.
I'll drive up to Home Depot andbuy the wood and build it
myself.
So I actually built a tiki barin my backyard.
It's out there now, that haswater, it's got electricity, you

(15:43):
know.
And then we built a paper patiooff the end of it too for a
fire pit and chairs.
And so yesterday I was fixingthe jet ski trailer, so the
lights one of the lights hadbroken off and I hit the other
one on something else.
I was out there having to bendmetal and get new lights on it
and fix it.
But I just, I don't know.
I've always been curious, so Idon't mind, you know, trying

(16:06):
something.
If I break it or do somethingwrong, I'll fix it.
I'm not, I'm not worried aboutthat side of it.
So, um, done the wholesprinkler system here at my
house.
Like I said, I'll just, I'll doanything I'll give it a shot.
I don't do drywall and I don'tdo tile though.
So when I remodeled ourbathroom, those are my two, so I
told my wife I'm like I'll doeverything else the plumbing,
I'll get everything else done,but when it comes to tiling and

(16:27):
drywall, that's just.
I don't have that.
I don't have the touch foreither of those.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's funny.
I have a buddy that leftstaffing but he has his own um
tile business now and he's likeI love it, it's like he found
his niche.
You know what?
Um, you mentioned curiosity,which is, uh, a superpower in
life and something that I'mobsessed with, but, um, tell me,
where do you think yourcuriosity came from?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Um, I don't know, maybe back to once again in the
beginning of like learning howto build things Like it.
Just I don't know, I I've neverbeen I don't know how to say
this Like I've never been intolike, um, you know, like fantasy
movies or like any of this,like everything I have is like
reality.
So I don't know, I watch, Iwatch a lot of shows, I read

(17:10):
some books.
I see different things and I'mlike I, just I it's I don't know
where, where the gene comesfrom.
I just have that naturalcuriosity and I see something.
I'm like I could do that andI'm willing to go give it a shot
.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
To be able to teach people the skill of being handy,
I would think requires empathyand patience.
Yes, from your pops Can youthink of a time where mom and
dad had to have empathy andpatience that maybe you reflect
on now as a dad that you use inyour own dad game?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, definitely Like when I was.
I'll never forget.
So you know, my dad had us doboy scouts and all that stuff as
we were growing up and it was,I don't know, kind of a typical
thing.
Like my older brother cruisedthrough school, he did the whole
Eagle scout thing, all that,and I'd say, about 16 years old,
I got a car and, um, you knowjust I kind of gotten away from

(18:05):
it.
My dad was just pushing me,pushing me, pushing me to like
get this thing done.
So it really took a team effortfrom the both of them to get me
back into it, um, at about 17,and then working with me all the
way until 1159 on the nightbefore my 18th birthday to get
that done.

(18:25):
So I look at like somethingthat had to be accomplished at a
timeline that really requiredboth of them.
So dad was on my backside aboutgetting the actual project done
, where mom's coaching me ofthis is why you're doing it.
This is why you need to get itdone.
So definitely tough love,compassion, right, you have both
sides of it and my, my daddoesn't, didn't always have

(18:49):
patience, right, like I always.
I always joke around andthere's a meme out there about
you never had to hold theflashlight for your dad, right?
You know?
For at a certain age you goback to doing that Like it
didn't matter how you held it.
You were holding it wrong,right?
I just laugh at that.
We have plenty of those moments.
I mean we, we, we definitelybutted heads many times.
but you know it was, it was alesson for me.

(19:10):
And sometimes I catch myselfwith my own kids and I get
impatient.
I'm like, all right, just takea deep breath.
And you know, sometimes I justhave to prep myself for things
like, hey, I know this is goingto be frustrating.
Like, just mentally prepareyourself, that it's.
You're going to get frustrated,just take a deep breath.
Um, you know, I think about,like now, as my parents get

(19:32):
older, like especially helpingmy dad out with things like, oh,
I'll get out there and help you.
It's like no, like I'd rather.
It's hard to tell your dad like, hey, I'd rather you just stay
inside and watch, enjoy the aircondition, I'll get the work
done because I can get it donefaster, right and um.
So there, definitely thosemoments.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, it's funny, my um, well, as you said that like,
so my maybe think about my dad,my, so my dad passed away
Travis in 2021 and really reallyrough journey, health battle
with him, kind of body just fellapart, mind fell apart.
So the days where you do findyourself get frustrated, I'm

(20:12):
sure you do celebrate it, but,like I would.
You know, having an 86 year olddad want to go out and do stuff
is really fricking cool.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, yeah no doubt about it, no doubt about it.
It's.
You know I definitely cherishthe moments and realize that.
You know it is a blessing.
So that's the hard part too.
I see too many people that arefrustrated or lack of
relationship or things like that.
And it's really, you know,knowing the guarantees of life

(20:40):
right Like it's, there's notinfinite time, so you have to
enjoy it while you can, yep.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, as you said that, um, I think you hit on a
couple of things that I thinkare really important.
Um, I found sometimes as ayounger dad, when I was raising
my kids or my wife and I, onething that I would find
frustrate me and it was allself-induced, it was having
false expectations in your head,yep, and then in my mind
envisioning it like, oh, howthis day is going to go or this

(21:08):
house is going to go, and thennot having an agreement of those
expectations, which I thinkalso aligns in, like this, the
leadership sales work I do nowfor companies.
It was like that triggered athought last week or two weeks
ago and I actually did a videoabout the difference between
having expectations andagreements, and so, as you said
that, I think it's an importantthing I want to hit on for,
specifically, there's dadslistening at home that maybe

(21:28):
find themselves gettingfrustrated too quick or losing
their you know what too quick.
A lot of it.
Sometimes it is self-inducingand hopefully learn from me Like
I was, I was the problem Right,and so, like, as you think
about that, what, um, what aresome things that you you found
work for you that maybe anotherdad at home might be able to
learn from, or maybe a storythat you can think of where you,

(21:50):
where you maybe weren't yourbest, or maybe a story where you
were your best.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, no, I mean I've definitely lost.
I mean I've lost my temper afew times, right, Like that's.
I don't know, I don't.
I got married and had kidsearly, right Like that's the
other thing I was just thinkingabout as we were going through
some of that, right I was.
I got married at 23, when myfirst son was 25.
Um, whereas in my case my dadwas 38 when I was born, um, and

(22:17):
mom was 35, right, so they wereolder and so I, I think about it
all the time.
You know, like when I graduatedhigh school, my dad was almost
57, right.
And here I am.
All three of my kids are aboutto be out of high school and I'm
still in my 40s and so.
But you know, I've learned.
You have to learn each one ofyour kids.

(22:37):
You learn their intricacies.
They're not all the same, theyall have different demeanors.
You learn what gets them riledup, and I think sometimes what's
worked for me is I can kind ofsee it coming now sometimes and
I just remove myself from thescenario, like I've learned
sometimes, particularly with mydaughter I hope this doesn't
come across wrong.

(22:58):
The two boys were easy.
My daughter and I are like oiland water.
Sometimes and I mean to be fairshe's a lot like me.
She's witty and quick with theone-liners and sometimes doesn't
know when to stop with them.
That's the difference.
Like, there's time to have funand sometimes it's like, all
right, hey, we'll pump thebrakes.

(23:19):
And so there's times you justlearn like, hey, I'm not worried
about my opinion of thisscenario, let mom and daughter
work it out.
I'm going to sit over here onthe sidelines and enjoy my peace
and tranquility without givingmy two cents.
So we had that.
The other night, my daughtercame home from work and we were

(23:39):
just talking about the summerand put money away before
college and next thing I know,it just completely derailed and
I was like, ok, I'm checking outof this one.
Like I, this was not meant tobe a negative conversation.
It was meant to be like hey, Ineed you to be thinking about
you're about to have a bunch offree time, but it's not really
free time because you have a job.
I need you to really startputting some money away for when
you go to college so you can goout and have fun.

(24:00):
Um, not that I don't get mykids money right, but still
we're paying rent we're payinggroceries, we're paying school,
we're paying all these things.
It's like you have a job, putsome of this stuff away and then
it just, like I said, itderailed and I just had to take
a deep breath and pull myselfout of the conversation and then
the next morning joke around alittle bit about a little bit,
and then she gives me a big hugand we keep moving.

(24:23):
So, um, I didn't have a wholelot of that with the boys.
It was pretty straightforward.
So there's a there's landmineswith the daughter that I have to
to navigate.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, I think that's another um, that's a good,
really good story.
I think that I'll speak to alot of, hopefully, dads or moms
at home but, like, I think oneof the things you did is you
didn't let it just sit like thenext morning.
You made a conscious choice tokind of talk about it or bring
it up and maybe use humor.
Um, sometimes, you know, dad,we've done episodes of forward,
we've we said, hey, you know,power of saying sorry is a gift
to give your kids, where you canteach them.

(24:56):
Hey, we're all just as flawedas you, um did.
Did you learn to do that byjust innate?
Maybe your, your wife sharedwith you, your parents shared
with you, like that, thatfollow-up for that when you,
when they have a little conflict.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
No, I think you know, my wife comes from a big Irish
family and we've been to plentyof weddings where, whether it
was her parents or hergrandparents, you know there's
always it was always aboutmarriage, but it was like never
go to bed angry, right, butthat's you can use that in

(25:33):
everything in life, right, itdoesn't the only person's night
you're ruining is your own.
Yeah, right, and so, um, I don'tknow.
I think some of it's just ageand wisdom, right, like, as
you've done it, you've beenthrough it a few times.
You know the first when you'reyounger, you want to be right
and as you get older, it's notabout being right, it's about
what, what, what makes lifeeasiest, you know and just, and
being able to adapt and realizesometimes you are right but you
aren't and you have to deal withthat, right, and I just, I

(25:55):
don't know I, being able to letthings go and just for the for,
for the for, the better foreverybody is.
It's a learned skill over time,but I think when you have
multiple kids and you've gotlots of years doing it, it comes
a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
So you, you hit on something that's like my
favorite piece of advice I'veever received in my life.
Um, I learned at age 23 and myfirst sales leader he said Casey
.
He asked me a question.
He goes Casey, do you want tobe right or do you want to get
what you want?
I go, I want both.
He goes you can't, you got topick one.
And I go well, I think I wantto get what I want.

(26:32):
He's like good answer.
And he's like why do you thinkso?
I go?
Well, probably my ego.
He's like yeah, to a CEO.
This morning, doing somecoaching work with her, brought

(26:53):
it up with her, you know,sharing with one of her fellow
direct reports.
It's like it's so painfullybrutal when you hear it because
you don't want to hear it,because you're at your ego
fighting you, but once you like,check it and embrace it it's
like, oh my God, life doesn'thave to be that hard.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, it's tough, though I mean it really is,
especially in business.
You know, when you're heldaccountable for certain things
as a leader and you know thatthe right thing is what you
really want to do, but yet, forthe sake, once again, right, to
get what you want, you have todo something else, and then
sometimes it works out.
Sometimes it doesn't what youwant.
You have to do something else,and then it sometimes it works
out, sometimes it doesn't.
But you know, you still know inthe back of your mind that at

(27:30):
least for me, like I alwaysthere's always just that kind of
asterisk of like I reallydidn't want to do it this way,
and then you see how it playsout.
So it's going both directions.
Sometimes you're like told youso, and other times you're like,
wow, I'm glad I really openedmy mind and was able to to at
least give us a chance to seewhat happens.
So, yeah, some of these it'sjust interesting, because the

(27:52):
things we're talking about, likeit's really it's it's business
and family and life in general,right Of just.
To me it's the way you view theworld and how you, how you
learn to adapt with people Right, and they can be your customers
, they can be your coworkers andthey can be your kids and they
can be your spouse.
I got a book from one of myearly sales jobs I still have it

(28:17):
here and I think the title waslovers or clients selling
succeeds or something like that,and it was just that's what it
was all about it was.
It was kind of the twodifferent dynamics of putting
those in perspective.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
It was kind of the two different dynamics of
putting those in perspective.
Well, it's so many, so many ofyou are.
You did talk about there iscommon sense, but I I've learned
as an entrepreneur now thatcommon sense is not commonly
practiced.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It is not common.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
And I don't know if you experienced this, you know,
going from two couple of largeorganizations and now it's where
you're at at Parka, but likethings that you thought when you
, when you like, for example, atrhi or modus, like, did you
ever have that experience whereyou just you place the place
like oh, everybody knows this,and you get through like, oh, my
god, no, they don't no, nodoubt about it.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I mean, I've I've worked at startups and I've
worked at really big ones andyou know some of the stuff after
working at a large organizationis just standard operating.
You know standard procedure,and then you go somewhere else
and it's just a foreign conceptand it's like wait a second, how
, how are you been doing this?

Speaker 2 (29:13):
So I would be willing to bet your.
Your skill of curiosity helpsyou through those moments of
meeting people where they are.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yep, yeah, yeah that, and I mean just even on the
sales side, like being good withnumbers and understanding how
things work.
You know, I got, I actually gothired to a role.
This is an interesting story.
I appreciate this from astaffing side.
So I got hired to a role and Iactually was recruited by a
headhunter right in the staffingbusiness, which I thought was

(29:40):
interesting.
And so we get my first P&L, likelike second quarter in or first
quarter in, and you know we hada threshold for getting a bonus
.
Well, I get the P&L and I'mlike, man, I know I hit this
number and I start diggingaround and I'm like I'm going
line by line in this Excel sheetand the accountant's like, why
do you want this information?

(30:00):
I was like, just send it to me,I want to dig through this.
Well, it turned out theycharged me back for the
recruiting fee that they hadpaid for me, and that was the
difference between hitting thebonus number or not Right now.
And I went wait a second.
No, no, no, you can't, youcan't penalize me for hiring me.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
This isn't going to work.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Went through the whole process, but that is the
one thing I learned too.
You mentioned like common sense, but just even the curiosity of
understanding everything iscorrect, um, I wouldn't call it
like being a perfectionist, butI think the common sense of just

(30:37):
looking at numbers, looking atscenarios, understanding
contracts and documents andthings like that, just having a
basic knowledge of that, it's alost art for a lot of people.
It's like okay, sorry I didn'tmake it, I'm like no, no, no,
hold on a second.
Like I've always been instaffing, I've always been very
detailed on numbers andunderstanding where we're at.

(30:58):
So I mean, that's where I justsee kind of that curiosity of
just life in general takes overthe business and having those
details down.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, so I shameless plug here.
So when I left I was when Ileft corporate I always wanted
to write a book, and so I wrotea book called win the
relationship, not the deal.
And the things I wrote aboutnot only and you kind of made me
think about it not only do theyhelp salespeople, but also it's
life skills.
These are, and these are thingsI'm working on all the time,
and so I've, you know, teachingmy kids, like the power of bring

(31:30):
energy to the room, be nice,always set expectations.
If you're going to be late, letthem know.
If you're, if you're going tobe, if something changed, let
people know.
Get ahead of things.
Be a great listener.
Remember if someone says youknow to call you at this time,

(31:53):
we'll call them at that time.
It's like the power of like.
Why documentation and sales isso important.
Um, being coachable, check yourego and have patience for
people like I don't care whatindustry you're in, those are
six things I would hire fromanybody.
But they're not.
They're really really hard toget good at over time and they
take a lot of intentionality.
And you know and I jokesometimes when I work with
people that you know when wewere kids.
Our parents taught us power ofthe golden rule.
You know, treat people the waywe want to be treated, but yet
we get in corporate.
You can just it's it's.

(32:14):
You assume that, oh, I can bean a-hole to somebody or I can
drive down the road and get roadrage and well like, but what?
We don't slow down.
So, um, it's been fun likehaving my kids see dad

(32:36):
transition from corporate to allof a sudden he's.
I work out of my house all thetime now when they're here and
but being able to like, kind oflike, share these stories and
teach Cause I hope that whenthey get to be our age they
remember that you know thethings of teaching high level EQ
is that's just not.
You know that's expected fromour family.
It's like be a good personalways.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, and I agree with that, and I think to um,
treat each other the way youwant to be treated, but also to
set boundaries.
And what I mean by that is likebe willing to walk away from
the negative right.
If you interact with somebodyor you interact with the company
and they treat you like crap orthey treat your team like crap,
you know, obviously you don'tjust run, but I mean have a

(33:19):
conversation, but if it doesn'tchange, like, hey, it's not
worth it.
So being able to tell people no, and walking away from things
like that's a uh, people don'tlook at it like that, but it's
it's a very, very powerful thingto be able to do.
To tell somebody like no,thanks, right, I don't want, I
don't want your business,because the mentality I think
for everybody is we need every,every penny and every dollar,

(33:41):
but you don't know you need theright ones.
You need the right customers,the right partners, the right
customers, the right partners,the right people that you know
it's not always going to be fun,but when they make it fun to do
, it makes it a lot better.
Right, but you need thatprofessionalism and I think you
see that lack with a lot ofpeople just across the board.
You know it's amazing to yourpoint, right.

(34:02):
Like, hey, Travis, like I wantto meet with you to talk about
this, Cool, All right.
Well, I'm going to send you aninvite for tomorrow at 2 o'clock
, you know 1.59.
Hey, sorry I can't make it.
It's like come on, man.
No, you knew before this.
Like, just shoot me a message,I'm cool.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Like send me a note transforming the business of
talent through our three linesof business ClearEdge Marketing,
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recruitment and HR tech sectorsgrow their brands and market
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I believe we were one ofCasey's very first clients.
He helped our sales and accountteams really those people on

(34:49):
the front lines of building anddeveloping client relationships
in so many ways.
Here are a few.
He helped us unlock the powerof curiosity.
For me it was a game changer.
I was personally learning allabout TED-based that's, tell,
explain, describe, questioningand that really resonated with
me.
We also learned about unlockingthe power of humility and

(35:11):
unlocking the power ofvulnerability.
Casey taught us to be a teamplayer, to embrace change, to
stay positive.
He is one of the most positivepeople I know.
He believes that optimism,resilience and a sense of humor
can go a long way in helpingpeople achieve their goals and
overcome obstacles.

(35:32):
And I agree Casey's book whenthe Relationship, not the Deal.
It is a must read.
Listen.
Whether you're looking forcoaching and training or a
powerful speaker or keynote,casey is one of the people I
recommend when talking tocompanies.
The end result for us, at leastas one of Casey's clients.

(35:52):
Our own clients would literallycommend our approach over all
other companies, from the way wewere prepared in advance of a
call to how we drove meetings,to how we follow up.
It sounds really basic, I know,but let me tell you it is a
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I encourage you to learn moreby going to CaseyJCoxcom.

(36:15):
You have nothing to lose byhaving a conversation and a lot
to gain.
Now let's get back to Casey'spodcast, the Quarterback Dadcast
.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
You have.
You maybe think of a story thatI shared with my kids.
This might speak to you.
So I had one of the coachingunnamed companies I was working
with.
One of the individuals joined aBecause I did a fractional gig
for somebody, yep, and part ofmy job was run sales meeting
every two weeks.
Well, this gentleman meetingstarted at 830, my time.

(36:47):
He showed up at like 852 in theZoom.
I declined it, tried to re-getback in.
I declined it again.
I get a text.
He says hey, man, can you letme in?
No, he says why not?
I go, I'll talk to you afterthe meeting.
And I said and I never said heyguys, fy your teammates trying

(37:10):
to get in.
I'm going to set an example, notbecause I'm trying to be rude,
but this is what a calendarlooks like.
Meeting started at eight 30.
Now the, the what would, and Iuse it.
Instead of telling him, I saidwell, tell me what would be the
right thing to do?
Everybody.
I got a couple couple like youknow, like that square of the
headlights are like because theyweren't used to being held
accountable.
I said we should have done isat 822.

(37:30):
Send me a note.
Hey, I'm stuck with a customerI can't meet.
Yep, get ahead of it.
Now, was I being on the top?
Some might argue yes, but I wastrying to prove a point,
because this company went fromlike having no accountability to
like getting someaccountability and fix the
problem, you know, and I justwanted to tell my kids that
story and they're like so it'slike just you, might guys see

(37:52):
that I'm right or rightly,that's my kid's name Like
sometimes dad's hardy about thatstuff, but I'm hardy on the
things that matter and likebeing you don't ever want to be
someone in life.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's late, right we did the morning huddles and the
staffing and people would showup five minutes late but they
had a Starbucks in their handand it's like wait a second.
You know you, you weren't latebecause you couldn't be here on
time.
You were late because youstopped at the coffee shop
because you didn't leave earlyenough to get the coffee Right.
Those are two differentscenarios.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Well played.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
And so I used that.
You're talking about what wouldkind of get my blood boiling
that one right there with that.
That's one that I had to reallybite my tongue a couple of
times and, just, you know, takea deep breath.
But you know, I will say that'swhere I think you know, and the
culture isn't for everybody andI think it's a lot better.
But, man, growing up, like, myfirst sales job, I worked for an

(38:48):
office equipment companyselling copiers.
Right, you want to talk about arough business, right, learning
how to take no for an answer.
I learned that.
Then I got into staffing and Iworked for a smaller one, but
then I went and worked forRobert Half and you know it's
suit and tie, it's.
You're making this many calls,you're doing this, you're doing
very, very structured, right,but you knew what your
expectations were and there wasthe ultimate accountability
there.
Like, some people wouldconsider it harsh back in the

(39:11):
day, right, but it was.
There was 100% accountability.
But I think that kind of shapedas you move forward, you're
like, hey, there's a good aspectof this, but how do I leverage
this with my personality, whichis not over the top?
Right, how do we makeaccountability not so rough
around the edges?
Right, like, understand whyyou're, why we're doing things,

(39:35):
what the whole purpose is, toyour point, like, so your kids
understand you know what, whatthe reason is for doing certain
things, because sometimes it'soh well, dad just was trying to
make me do this just to be ajerk, right, and it's like no.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
I'm trying to help you out.
How so?
I think all these themes we'retalking about, I think not only
they're important in business,they're important as dads,
relating to sales and leadershipand, in theory, whether you're
in sales or not, everybody'sselling.
I always tell people You'retrying to convince your husband
or wife to go to Mexican.
They might be trying toconvince you to go to Chinese
tonight, like someone's going towin that deal, right.

(40:14):
And so if you think about, likethe core values that your
parents taught you and then,transversely, the core values
that you and your wife areteaching your kids, tell me
what's the same and what'sdifferent.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
I definitely.
I didn't buy my kids toolboxes,right, so I think my kids have.
You know, I think thecompassionate side and that side
from my mother has definitelybeen passed down.
The entrepreneurial spirit ofmy father, like, my oldest son

(40:47):
is a project manager, right Anelectric company, so I don't see
him being in sales.
My middle son is in an aspectof sales, still trying to figure
out what my daughter's going todo, so like I don't know,
ultimately, what they go towards.
You know the thing we haven'treally talked about.
We, you know, we talked aboutyour kids playing sports.
My kids all played sportsgrowing up.
So we did AAU basketball, wetraveled around the country, we

(41:10):
did training sessions, like youknow.
So they they learned hard work,um, and you know, I think it's
it was interesting too, goingfrom being at a small Catholic
grade school where if you hadsome athleticism, you could play
every sport.
Uh, we were fortunate enoughwhen my kids were there to have
quite a few athletes and we werevery competitive.

(41:30):
But then you get to high schooland it's a business Like even
you know it's.
You know this from your kids,right, like you, they tell you
you don't have to, but youalmost have to pick a sport, you
have to do spring ball, youhave to do AAU, you have to like
it's.
You got to be a part of it, orat least the feeling is made

(41:51):
that you have to be a part of it.
Right, and so I think theylearned that kind of quickly.
To growing up is that you knowyou have to dedicate yourself to
it.
And my daughter my daughter wasa really good softball player,
so this is an interesting story.
So she was a pitcher.
She's just got natural ability.
She can pick up softball, stonethem straight down the middle.
She might not pick it up for ayear.
So she got to high school shesaid I'll play softball because

(42:14):
we want her to play a sport likepick one.
I don't care, go run track andfield, I don't care what you do,
play volleyball, basketball,softball, pick one, basketball
is too much work, volleyball istoo much work, I'm gonna go play
softballs.
She played soft, said I'll playone condition I don't want to
pitch.
And we showed up the first gameand she's a starting pitcher
and so I used to tell the coachall the time I was like you

(42:36):
better put your arm around herand you better start paying her
some attention.
Like the varsity coach, I'mlike you're going to lose her.
No, no, I will, I will.
I was say she didn't go backafter her our freshman year, so
we looked at a few differentthings she tried out for the
golf team this last year as asenior made it so interesting,
you know just.
But I always try to keep theminvolved in something, you know,

(43:00):
not just school, but there hadto be some sort of social aspect
.
My oldest son's an eagle scout.
You know my daughter.
You know they either wereplaying sports, they were, were
doing something, they playedtheir fair share of video games,
but we always had them aroundother people learning different
things.
I will tell you the competitivetournaments, traveling around.
I hear a lot of people say, oh,I would never do travel sports

(43:22):
with my kids.
That's way too much, man, it'sa waste of time.
Sign me up again.
Whenever you're ready, I'll goback tomorrow.
Sign me up again.
Whenever you're ready, I'll goback tomorrow.
Those are some of the best,funnest times as a parent man
being with your kid, watchingyour kids compete, getting
around the other parents.
You know you build out yoursocial network of other folks

(43:43):
and it's pretty cool.
So we're still in touch with atons of the families that we
used to travel around with.
I'm in Florida and I mean, thefurthest we went we went to Las
Vegas for a basketballtournament, which is pretty wild
Right.
So I should own property inOrlando.
I spent so much time at Disneyand the AAU center down there,
but no it's.
I think that aspect of it isjust you got to, you got to have

(44:06):
your school, but you, you gottahave some other, some other
activity going along with it tokeep you busy well, if it makes
you, if a memory lane here,travis, I'll be in vegas next
weekend for a hoop, love it.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yeah.
So we, we go to chicago,phoenix, california.
This is our first, my firsttime going to vegas.
Um, but yeah to to you thatpoint about memories.
Like we, even like our girls,are having memories, and my son,
he, played too, and but ourparents were creating shirts
called the farewell tour andit's a picture of the girls and

(44:38):
you know it.
Just, it's the memories youcreate.
And so, even like last weekendor two weeks ago, we were in
Roseville, california, for atournament and we all did like
we were doing the high and lowof the weekend.
The girls went around and whenit was my turn to speak, I said
my high is nothing to do withthe points and then to do with
the wins, the rebounds, it's.
Look at the laughter you guyshave down this table.
Look at the memory, thelifelong memories you're gonna

(45:00):
create.
You won't for you, if I said,hey, what was the best three you
made, you'd be like you mighthave a memory, but you're gonna
see what was the most fun.
They're like.
I remember that dinner at thisrestaurant.
We laughed and this guy didthis and we were in the hotel
room watching a movie and thisperson talked about that.
It's like these are like lifeskills you're learning and
because most kids as we learnedas much, they're not going pro.

(45:21):
But when you're a new parentout there, you think you're a
little Johnny, a little Susie's.
Next Randy Johnson, it's ain'tgoing to happen.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
It might, but you know, but most likely it's not.
Yeah, we were in a when we werein Vegas.
It was when Zion Williamson andLonzo ball were playing in the
in the.
They were in that sametournament but they played a
different location and my kidswere all excited.
We're like, okay, we'll go.
And then it was, you know, Ithink about a two and a half
hour wait to get in.
You were never making it intothe gym and we had a really good

(45:57):
time and they got to see a lotof NBA players.
You know they have memoriesfrom that, from going to Vegas,
even just being on the plane andbeing with their friends and,
you know, doing the differentthings.
We we had a.
We had a great time.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
So good, okay, before we dive into some life at Parka
, if you were to like, maybehighlight an area of your dad
game, that, as you reflect it,that maybe a younger dad
listening to be like man, let's,let's learn from the old guys.
I mean, you like what would bean area of your dad game that
maybe you knew wasn't quitealways where you wanted to be,

(46:29):
that you could go back to man Iwish I was.
I was more of this, or more ofthat.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
that might speak to a dad at home well, I hear a lot
of people say like you can't befriends with your kids, and I
don't buy into that.
I think you absolutely can, butyou have to have the
accountability piece to go alongwith it.
And so I think you going fromlack of a better term kind of
being a hard ass in thebeginning, to being able to put
your arm around them and explainthings and I think the sports

(46:56):
had some of that to do with ittoo right, Because they started
to get some tough love fromother people, aka coaches and
different things but just likebeing able to understand that
you can be friends with your kid, but they also need to
understand there's a switchthere and when it's time for
accountability, that that switchgets hit Right.

(47:17):
And and so I, I just I thinkbeing real with your kids too,
and like just being honest withthem, is is is very helpful, and
when you get frustrated withthem, is is is very helpful, and
when you get frustrated withthem, let them understand why.
Right, and it's.
Oh, I made a mistake.
You didn't make a mistake, butit was a preventable mistake, so

(47:37):
let's talk about like this iswhy it frustrates me.
So I don't know.
I just, I think, that piece ofit and then just be as present
as you can.
You know what I mean by that is, if your kids are doing things,
being there is a big deal, youknow.
Even in sports, if your kid'son the bench, mom and dad being
in the stands, being there forit is still important.
So you know, I made a prioritywhen traveling with work.

(48:00):
I mean, there's many times Iwould have lunch in South
Florida and I'd spend five hoursdriving back to get back for a
630 JV basketball game, Right,that wasn't unheard of.
Um, I've got a conference at theend of the end of this month
and I'm flying out.
I get back at midnight cause mydaughter's graduation mass is
the next day, Right, Likethere's times.
It just just putting them firstand making sure they know that,

(48:23):
I think is super important.
And, um, you know, I think ifyou ask my kids I'll tell you
I'm not perfect.
But they also know I doanything in the world for them
and that's that's what mattersmost to me, Love it, love it.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, you're, um, I, I go to Charleston next week for
three days and the conferencecould be all week.
I'm like I can, I can speak andbe your guy, but I got to leave
Wednesday night because I'm notgoing to miss this basketball
tournament.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
So love Charleston, by the way, great city.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Yeah, you've been to Miller's all day.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
No, I haven't been there.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Great breakfast spot on King street, so I went.
This will be my second timegoing, but I went and I was
actually talking to a guy.
Last week we had we had thesame shirt.
It's like a gray.
It says Miller's all day withgreen on it.
So anybody out there if you'venever been to Miller's all day,
go check it out.
Shout out to them.
Okay, I've mentioned Parka acouple of times.

(49:16):
People might know like Parka,like Parka Floor from Boston
Celtics, like which is not it.
Tell us what Parka does and whyshould people be interested in
learning more about the greatteam you got?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
does and why should people be interested in learning
more about the great team yougot?
Yeah, so we are a Salesforceconsulting shop that's specific
to the staffing and recruitingindustry.
So I have 20 plus years in thebusiness.
I got introduced to Parker acouple of years ago when I was
between opportunities, and we doa lot of the things that I wish
I could get my companies to dowhen I worked for them.

(49:50):
So we specialize in theSalesforce and Bullhorn
ecosystems, but we helpcompanies who are looking to
either optimize what theycurrently have or if they're
looking at new systems based onthe Salesforce platform.
There's several of them outthere, but we provide tech
consultation, implementation,automation strategies,

(50:16):
enterprise consultation.
So it's all technology focusedSalesforce platform, staffing
and recruiting.
So if anybody's sitting thereand they're listening to this,
they're like man, we've beenthinking about making a change
or we'd love to understand whatwe're missing out on.
Everybody's hearing AIautomation.
If you're not doing that stuff,you really are getting left
behind.

(50:36):
I'm the person you want to talkto.
We can at least have an initialconversation and see what it
looks like and go from there.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Love it.
What's the best way for peopleto find you?

Speaker 1 (50:50):
LinkedIn is always easy, just under Travis Webb.
And then my email is just twebbat parka with a Q P-A-R-Q-A dot
com.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Okay, love it.
I'll make sure this is linkedin the show notes so people can
learn more about you.
It is now time, travis, to gointo the lightning round, which
is I show you the negative hitsof taking too many hits in
college not bong hits, butfootball hits.
Your job is to answer thesequestions as quickly as you can,
and my hope is to get a giggleout of you.

(51:18):
Okay, perfect, okay.
So for people who are watchingat home on YouTube, you'll
understand this next dad joke.
If you're not in the car,you're going to have to just
visualize.
So, travis, true or false, youare considered the big country
of staffing.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
True.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Everybody.
It looks like big country fromOklahoma State back in the day.
I feel like I'm talking to him.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
North Carolina it's Eric.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Montrose.
Where was I?
Who's the dude from OklahomaState though?
What's that dude's name?
I'm not sure.
So you got there's not sure.
So you got there's two dudes.
So I got Montrose.
Now I'm looking at.
Now I got him.
I just messed that up.
But there's another guy I'mthinking about.
There's an Oklahoma State guythat you, I don't I got.
I'm going to blank on his name.
Now You'll have to let me knowon that one there.

(52:03):
Step Brothers.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Solid I've heard it all the time.
It's a classic and I can watchit on repeat.
My wife will tell you that Iwill watch it over and over on
the comedy channel.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Okay, what would be the one genre of music that
might surprise your kids youlisten to?

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Actually believe it or not.
I grew up, I was in the band.
I wasn't always this big, so Iwill listen to classical music
every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Okay, there you go.
What instrument did you play?

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Trumpet and baritone.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
I was a trumpet guy.
In fifth grade Made the crazydecision to get a silver trumpet
, Used my job to go pay for itand then ninth grade hung up the
cleats.
We could be the Louis Armstrongof staffing together.
Brother, Last book you read wasI'm actually currently reading
your book.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
After our conversation a couple of weeks
ago, I got it in.
I read the first chapter lastnight and we'll have it done
here by the end of the week.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
I did not know that everybody that is not a
shameless self plug, so Iappreciate the support.
If I was to come to your housefor dinner tonight, what would
we have?

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Well, it's Cinco de Mayo, so we would be having
tacos.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Sounds good.
You and your wife are going onvacation.
No kids, where are we going?

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Either the last one we went to we actually went to
Charleston, since we weretalking about Charleston, but we
spent a lot of time up in themountains in Western North
Carolina or we are avid cruisers.
So you find us down theCaribbean on various islands.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Love it.
Okay, tell me, if there was abe a book written about your
life, travis, what would be thetitle?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Oh, boy, boy, I don't know, that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
I thought it was going to be oh boy.
Dot, dot dot.
That might be it.
All right, let's go with thatoh boy, which has so many
meanings that I think mightinspire people who want to read
it.
But now Hollywood wants to makea movie out of Travis, and so I
need to know who's going tostar you in this critically
acclaimed, hit new movie, oh Boy.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Eric Montross.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Well played, well played and good answer.
Okay, and then last question,the most important one Tell me
two words that would describeyour wife.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Patient and kind.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Solid answers which explains why you've been married
for 25 years, and a patient andkind wife.
Those are two foundationalelements.
So, lightning round's over, weboth giggled.
I had a fun, I had a blast justgetting to know you man, and
I'm just grateful for Randallfor introducing us and I hope
everybody has taken a lot fromour conversation.

(54:47):
I hope that if you're in thestaffing industry, if you're
looking to learn more about theSalesforce automation work,
reach out to Travis.
We'll make sure it's reallyeasy to do.
It'll be linked in the shownotes and if this episode has
touched you, please share itwith a friend.
If you have not yet left us areview on anywhere where you
consume your podcast, that wouldbe a big gift.
You can thank I mean me and myteam.

(55:09):
We would appreciate thatWithout further ado.
Brother, I appreciate you.
Thanks again for spending somuch time and I look forward to
hopefully meeting you in personsoon.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Absolutely Thanks, casey, yeah.