September 9, 2025 • 55 mins
Ian Hay returns to share crucial disaster preparedness strategies for business owners during hurricane season and National Preparedness Month, emphasizing self-reliance when government resources may be limited.
• Text instead of calling during emergencies and include specific location information
• Keep multiple backups of all cloud-based data in different physical locations
• Maintain cash in small denominations for emergencies when electronic payments fail
• Have essential emergency supplies readily available including water, food, and batteries
• Keep fire blankets accessible for electrical fires rather than just fire extinguishers
• Establish clear communication plans with employees including alternative contact methods
• Understand your business insurance coverage thoroughly before disaster strikes
• Consider carrying phones on different networks to maintain communication during outages
• For career transition and AI integration coaching, contact Ian at 770-293-8870
• Visit lickitysplitdisasterkit.com for a special discount on Ian's disaster preparedness video package
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh man, are you asking, why are people stupid?
I guess, so that was a wholeother episode.
Yeah, because how about?
This is why, as I rented myhouse, you know, we built the
house in the mountains, werented out and the guy told me
you cannot have a real workingfireplace.
Let me tell you why.
I had a renter who thought theywere doing me a favor and took
(00:20):
the embers out and put them outon the deck and it's a wood deck
, everybody.
So note to self that's nice Hotembers.
Wood deck equals fireextinguisher or fire.
Yeah, he goes, don't do it.
So that's why we took all thegas out.
I have an electric fireplaceand we have electric candles up
there too.
Guess how many times every timewe go up there to check them
(00:44):
out, how many of them are justcharred.
Silly, because people try tolight up all the time.
So let's not go on.
Are people stupid?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I've got the ultimate on that, but I'll save it for
another time.
It's a fire extinguisher.
People are stupid story.
It's pretty good.
All right back to Ian.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't know, why don't you go ahead and, uh, all
right, I can't say anything Idon't want to was it firsthand
you putting it out?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
no, no, it was.
Uh, we had our cabin up in blueridge and I get a call and we'd
had a break-in, and so thesethree idiots and apparently one
of them was barefoot kicked inthe back glass so to get in, and
then obviously that meant theyhad a bloody foot.
So they got into my liquorcabinet they're having a good
(01:32):
time, but then they also gotinto my first aid kit somewhere
along the line.
They must have realized hmm,our fingerprints are all over
this first aid kit.
Let's light it on fire in acabin that's made out of wood
yeah in a stairwell that is allwood and it's super dry, and so
they light that on fire, whichthen catches the stairs on fire.
(01:53):
So then they get my fireextinguisher, which puts out the
fire, thank god, but then ithas the foam all over the place,
which then has their footprintsall over the place.
So at that point then theydecided to rip the water pipe
out of the wall and flood mybasement just to get that
cleaned up.
Did we find these idiots?
We did, thank God for FanninCounty's finest, because I think
(02:15):
in Atlanta they'd be like sucksto be.
You call your insurance companyand they're like I think I know
who that is and I we're goingto get them and we're going to
make them pay you back.
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Welcome to the Small Business Safari where I help
guide you to avoid those traps,pitfalls and dangers that lurk
when navigating the wild worldof small business ownership.
I'll share those gold nuggetsof information and invite guests
to help accelerate your ascentto that mountaintop of success.
It's a jungle out there and Iwant to help you traverse
through the levels of owningyour own business that can get
you bogged down and distract youfrom hitting your own personal
(02:46):
and professional goals.
So strap in Adventure Team andlet's take a ride through the
safari and get you to themountaintop.
We just got the 3, 2, silentcount 1.
And we're started, alan, youdidn't know it, but that's what
we got from our director.
My fingers weren't lined upwith the 3, 2, silent count 1.
And we're started, alan, youdidn't know it, but that's what
(03:07):
we got from our director, myfingers weren't lined up with
the 3, 2, 1.
So we're ready and we're goingto do some SNL kind of stuff
really.
I mean, we're bringing backformer guests, kind of having
the tribute.
You know we just had our fourthyear anniversary, got a lot of
celebration comments about ourfourth year anniversary from the
newsletter that went out.
(03:28):
If you didn't get thenewsletter, please subscribe to
the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
A little preemie podcast.
I have your NPR voice goingtoday.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You like that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, not really All right.
Let me get going, All right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I said he goes man you're always too amped up.
I'm like, all right, buddy I hegoes man you're always too
amped up.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, all right, buddy, I'm going to bring it
back.
That's not exactly what I said.
It was just the talking over mepart.
What?
All right, that's enough, let'sgo Back to me.
I'll get back in my corner.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh my gosh.
So, alan, we've got a greatguest today, but before we get
to our guest, it's got to beabout we had to do something on
Labor.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Day, you mean like watch an enormous amount of
college football.
I did, yeah.
How about that?
That was so good.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we had a guest on who said I think UT all the way
and he found out that BuckeyeNation had a different ID.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I noticed how quickly you played that episode after
it recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes, well, he was great.
I mean, I think I had a lot offun with that one.
And then, especially when hesaid UT was going to beat, I'm
like, oh, we're running that now.
No, I'm kidding, it was, I did.
I watched a lot of football, acopious amount of football,
loved it, ready to go, ready forthe NFL season.
I'm now going to get all sevendays of my week ruined because
(04:40):
I'm betting on college footballand I, of course, have my
fantasy football.
So this ought to be fun.
Seven days of just misery andthen five days of running the
business, isn't it great?
I love it.
I look forward to this time ofyear every year, because I am a
masochist.
All right, alan, we've done it.
Snl style, they always bringback the hosts that they think
(05:01):
are the best, and these guys arealways vying for who gets to
come back.
And we're like, yeah, well, sowe've had people on twice.
Yeah, we've had people on once.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course, but what do we have now?
Have we ever had anybody threetimes?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is the third edition of the Ian Hay episode
experience.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's go the Ian Hay experience in the house.
He's back.
If you don't remember what Iandoes, hold on to your socks,
because he'll tell you aboutyour socks and what you should
do with them.
And it's not what you'rethinking, alan.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You probably need to wet them and put them under your
door in case of a gas attack.
Am I right?
Am I close?
Do I even need?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
to be here for this, and let me just say, if anyone
is going to do the NPR voice,it's going to be yours truly.
That's true, he does that.
I have to hold up theintergalactic adventure team.
Let's strap in and get going.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Let's do this adventure team.
We got to rock and roll, we gota great episode.
We brought ENA back becausewe're going to talk about
disaster preparedness.
We're going to talk aboutexecutive coaching.
We're going to talk about thecrews around the world that
didn't happen and talk about howlack of planning and I can't
wait to hear about this stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh, that's got to be edited, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'll
hear from a lawyer on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, well, let's send you.
Let's know, let's keep that onein.
Yeah, all right.
Yeah All right.
They don't know what we'retalking about.
That's right, let's go then.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They'll forget by then.
Have a bourbon with us.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know what we're having?
Scott Think old malt gotchwhiskey that you can only get in
duty-free stores.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Exactly so.
This is Talisker Dark Storm.
It's one of my favorites DarkStorm.
I'm not trying of, uh, you know, thankfully we haven't had
landfall.
Obviously, aaron was prettydamn close and people it
impacted people in northcarolina, amongst others.
(06:53):
We had multiple people die andrip currents.
I mean, you know really, uh,why I brought the dark storm?
Is I need people or we?
We need people to betterprepare?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And you start with a good bottle of booze in the
basement.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We call that cellar temperature.
There's one great place to bein any really bad weather and
that's in the cellar.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So let's talk about disaster preparedness a little
bit.
We just talked about hurricanesand we're coming into our
hurricane season.
Here we're in hurricane season,we're fully into hurricane,
we're coming into our hurricaneseason.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Here we're in hurricane season, we're fully
into hurricane, we're cominginto the peak, though the peak,
but it's been quiet.
Knock on wood, it has beenquiet and we've had such a wet,
hideous, I just thought, oh,this is going to be a horrible
year and nothing so far.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I mean, it's the craziest.
I've been in Georgia for 25years.
Right Little three-year stintin DC, four deployments this is
by far the most bizarre weatherthat I remember in Georgia Super
hot summer, my electric bill isout of control, and then all of
a sudden we have this cool downand this massive high pressure
that really prevented that stormfrom making landfall, and so I
(08:03):
think we got super lucky.
It has tamped down, you know,production and the peak for just
is September 11th throughOctober 10th, so that's really
the window where we are mostproductive, the peak and high
point for hurricanes in theNorth Atlantic, and that's why
you know we need people to bebetter prepared.
So here we are it's September,it's National Preparedness Month
(08:25):
, obviously in recognition of9-11, and what I want people to
do is to really focus on havingthat lickety-split disaster kit,
knowing what your plan is.
Remember, here come the—I alwayslike to launch with the golden
nuggets Text don't call.
If you send me a cross street,I can find you.
If you don't send me anything,I have no idea.
(08:47):
Just remember that when yousend three of your friends the
cross street of where you are,that when you're safe, you say
all clear, or I am safe, or whathave you, because if I don't
hear from you, I'm going to workand we're either going to find
you or we're going to find adead body.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But we're going to find something.
Uh-oh man, that is a dark storm.
It is a dark storm.
It's also we're celebrating ananniversary of Katrina hitting
in New Orleans, and that'sbringing up a lot of
documentaries, a lot of news,and kind of bringing that back
and how it affected us here inAtlanta is a lot of people had
to evacuate and end up here inAtlanta for that.
But you went back and looked atthis.
(09:25):
So we've had kind of a luckydisaster.
You know hurricane season herein the Southeast.
But one of the things we talkedabout right before we got on
air is that, with what's goingon and we're not doing the
political thing, but whensomething like this happens, we
rely on our federal governmentto help us, and our state
governments usually back us up.
But right now, in the currentenvironment, are you concerned
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that there won't be that supportthat we're hoping for if
something big happens?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, you know, I think you know, post 9-11, and
one of the reasons why we didthat short, you know, 20-minute
episode on the Lickety SplitDisaster Kit was to really
increase preparedness, and thisobviously is critical for our
small business owners as well.
So the thing you've got to takein, you know, keep in mind is
that we usually have more benchstrength.
(10:11):
Right, the FEMA apparatus wouldhave been in place.
When you have a large, you know, scaled, multi-state
jurisdiction disaster, you needthat bench strength to people
who know how to do procurementright.
Is it a great idea to put moremoney toward the states for
their own preparedness so thatthey can choose the types of
(10:34):
disasters that they face and bebetter prepared for that?
Sure, we just don't have anapparatus right now, and so one
of the things we want to makesure is that you individually,
your family, your pets, areprepared for that disaster, and
also for your small businessowners.
Make sure you have your backupfiles.
Make sure that, as long as youcan get to a computer without a
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network, everything is in theright.
If you have everything in thecloud, man, please, please,
please, please, please, hear me,ask me how I know.
Make sure you have a copy thatyou keep somewhere else.
So I have.
I have three drive, actuallyfive drives, but I have three.
One gets rotated in and out ofmy strong box, uh, in the bank,
and the other two one is awayfrom us and the other uh, you
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know the other is in in the caror with a friend, wherever it is
.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But the key is to make sure anything that you have
in the cloud it sounds likewe've got the air horn going off
in our ears, but no, we havedisaster preparedness happening
right now in Lalamia's house.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I am so impressed that you created these special
sound effects Right.
It sounds like an air horn.
I feel like we're right in themiddle of reconstruction.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Right, it's just perfect.
That's what we're doing, butdon't worry, you won't hear this
on the podcast.
But what's going on is we areremodeling the house right now.
I'll put pictures up eventually.
But back to these drives.
When you say your drives, thisis all your personal financial
information, personal what?
What is on those drives?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
A hundred percent.
I just want to note that theprofessionally trained PIO did
not break character.
I would have kept going if thatnoise didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It was probably not no, you were doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'm like I am staying in, I like I'm on a camera live
.
So yes, when I say drive and.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Alan went squirrel on us, I know.
Thank you, alan.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, we have problems with sound all the time
, so I figured why not?
I love this.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He's very, he's very bougie about his sound.
And look my friend RichardMiller right who, who uh, runs
mission control studios inArizona.
He's like looking and peoplewill tolerate bad video they
will not tolerate that audio.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Who else said something like that?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Uh, Winston Churchill , oh.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I knew that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Warmer Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Okay, oh brother, anyway, can we get back to Ian?
What's on those drives?
What should I save on thosethings?
Save on them, well, yourfantasy league, of course,
that's number one.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Hey look, anything that drives revenue right.
So if that's your thing, youknow, make sure you keep the
Powerball ticket in there.
But no, basically, yes, anexternal drive, am I over under?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
bets for the NFL Falcons over Wow Gym card.
Yeah, Perfect Gym card.
No, the gym card is golfhandicap.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yep, I have that on the phone.
That's right, got to have that.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But anything you store digitally, make sure you
have a paper copy.
Okay, there you have it,meaning anything that's critical
.
I'm not saying you got to haveeverything.
Another thing we you know, makesure you have pictures of your
family or your pet, just in caseyou can't access your digital
device, in case they go missing.
You want to be able to findthem or post something,
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reproduce that image.
But really the most importantthree golden nuggets is text.
Text, don't call, give me acrossroads where I can find you.
Have that plan of communicationwith your family.
Number two if you've got a lotof information in the cloud,
don't be reliant on that's goingto be there, right?
So make sure you have thatbacked up.
You're storing it in differentlocations.
And then, third, you got tohave cash.
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Like we are such a cashlesssociety and go for small
denominations, otherwise I'm avery expensive banker.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So hundreds is not good.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If you want to pay everything for $100 for
everything, sure, oh, I see whatyou're saying.
Yeah, just like I've got, getyour cheetah money.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
All right, oh, that's well.
That's turning into 20s and 50s.
That's a different story.
Don't ask me how I know thatone either.
Back to the vault, please, somuch.
Let's go back to the vaultAgain.
Pictures, Pictures of what?
Nope, not those pictures.
Got you Identification pictures?
What?
When did that mole?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
get there.
We literally cannot take himanywhere.
No, this is what makes this fun.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Ah, let's keep going.
So, disaster preparedness, soyou got to have it.
Personally, one of the thingsyou talked about with your
lickety split kit is a couple ofthings we have to have.
What's the one thing that Alanremembers?
Oh, this is great Quiz time.
Lickety split kit, licketysplit kit, disaster kit,
disaster.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I think I've already said it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It is a bottle of your favorite booze that makes
you happy in the middle of astorm.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't remember that being in the kit, but I'm
adding that ding ding ding.
Look, it's a great tradepartner.
You can trade it for thosecritical things.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Watch this water water, food, batteries, cash,
yeah, some sort of way to makefire light now, that's what I
remembered all right, let's makesome fire.
Maybe, maybe something to keepwarm, like one of those
reflective things I don't know,a Zodiac boat, does that fit?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
A Zodiac boat.
Yeah, okay, what's?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
a Zodiac boat.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's a little inflatable one that you just get
it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know you can get out of Dodge with.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, I can just see that.
You know the one where I havethe phone and I go, I go, I've
got one in my attic and now.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I got to Because, Ian , you do not have a no.
What should you have in yourattic?
Here we go.
Now it's really time An axe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, good call.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Huh, I remember that.
No, you didn't.
I didn't you remember when Isaid it, I do.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's right in your attic.
Never know when you have to getout.
I actually have a hatchet rightnear my bed, just in case.
Windows right there, but justin case, and note to self, make
sure, do you sleepwalk?
No, no, no, we don't do that Imean I'm Matt.
Debusin.
So there's a great opportunityhere to do a Lizzie Borden joke,
but we'll leave that behind.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, no All right, so lickety-split, let's talk about
just personal things.
I'll get over to whatbusinesses need to do To be
prepared.
What you said is in every roomwe needed to have a couple of
things as well, right?
Wouldn't you say that?
No, go ahead.
I thought it was fireextinguishers In every room.
I remember him saying, not injust the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Right, so, ideally, what I have are fire blankets.
Right so, I have a fireextinguisher downstairs in the
kitchen, where it's most likely,and then I have a fire blanket
upstairs in the event, like we.
How many electronic devices dowe have plugged in now?
Right so these little fireblankets are great for an
electrical fire.
You just lay the blanket overthe burning and it kills the
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oxygen, puts the fire out.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh, and then you don't have to use a crap all
over your house.
See, I almost remembered it wasa fire blanket, not a fire
extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
By the way, and I just want our listeners to know
if anybody's like me, I hadnever used a fire extinguisher
until this last year.
Oh do tell.
Yeah, well, I'm on the HOAboard and somebody texted me and
there was a trash can on fireup at the clubhouse and so they
were freaking out.
Let's call the fire departmentand everything.
(17:31):
I'm like I got a fireextinguisher, I'll just go up
and use it and on the way therewere you going.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Fully ensconced in a Minions outfit.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I mean, I was honestly, I was rolling my eyes
Like really, and I get there andthere's a pretty good amount of
fire coming out of the hugetrash cans that we have here in
Georgia.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Literally a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was literally a dumpster fire, and so I thought
I had all the weaponry I neededand I pulled the trigger and it
was empty.
At that point I'm like thereisn't a whole lot in here.
But it appeared that the firewas out and the next thing, you
know, the flames came back.
So you know, saving a couple ofbucks by getting a little
(18:16):
vanity boutique, you know smallone.
No, you need I think you need areal fire extinguisher.
So I did.
You know, everybody panicked atthat and I just rolled the,
rolled the trash can into themiddle of the parking lot and
then the fire fire departmentcame and they just ceremonially
walked out and it was a goddamnbirthday party.
Nobody threw their birthdayparty.
(18:37):
How do you not make sure thecandles are out?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, man, oh, are you asking why are people stupid?
I guess there's a whole another.
Yeah, because, um, how aboutthe?
This is why, as I rent, rentedmy house.
Uh, you know, we built thehouse in the mountains, we
rented out and the guy told meyou cannot have a real working
fireplace.
Let me tell you why.
I had a renter who thought theywere doing me a favor and took
(19:02):
the embers out and put them outon the deck and it's a wood deck
, everybody.
So note to self, that's niceHot embers.
Wood deck equals fireextinguisher or fire.
Yeah, he goes, don't do it.
So that's why we took all thegas out.
When I have an electricfireplace and we have electric
candles up there too, guess howmany times every time we go up
(19:23):
there to check them out, howmany of them are just charred.
Silly, because people try tolight up all the time.
So let's not go on our peoplestupid.
I've got the ultimate on that,but I'll save it for another
time.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's a fire extinguisher, people are stupid
story.
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right back to Ian , I don't know why don't you go
ahead and say it?
I?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
can't say anything I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Was it firsthand you putting it out?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No, it was.
We had our cabin up in BlueRidge and I get a call and we'd
had a break-in, and so thesethree idiots and apparently one
of them was barefoot kicked inthe back glass to get in, and
then obviously that meant theyhad a bloody foot.
So they got in my liquorcabinet they're having a good
(20:14):
time.
But then they also got into myfirst aid kit.
Somewhere along the line theymust have realized hmm, our
fingerprints are all over thisfirst aid kit.
Let's light it on fire.
In a cabin that's made out ofwood, yeah, in a stairwell that
is all wood and it's super dry,and so they light that on fire,
which then catches the stairs onfire.
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So then they get my fireextinguisher, which puts out the
fire, thank god, but then ithas the foam all over the place,
which then has their footprintsall over the place.
So at that point then theydecided to rip the water pipe
out of the wall and flood mybasement just to get that
cleaned up.
Did we find these idiots?
We did, Thank God, for FanninCounty's finest, because I think
(20:56):
in Atlanta they'd be like sucksto be.
You call your insurance companyand they were like I think I
know who that is, and we'regoing to get them and we're
going to make them pay you back.
That is, and we're going to getthem and we're going to make
them pay you back.
Oh, that's awesome.
And for years I got these weirdlittle I'm sure they were
garnished check bits sent to me.
Wow, as a result, that'sawesome.
Yeah, that is a good story.
That's a victory right there.
I love it.
(21:21):
Give a small garnish.
But they called me so manyyears later and they're like
it's going to trial and I'm likeI don't even really remember
other than what I just told you.
I mean, I'm like just dowhatever you need to do, but
please don't bring me into court, because it's so far in my past
I mean, it was like eight yearsyeah, Wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
All right.
So disaster preparedness beingready in your own home, be ready
to use your fire extinguisher.
I love it.
And let's double check.
We got fire blankets on eachfloor that's what it was, not
each room and an ax or a hatchetin your attic if you ever have
to escape out or let the Even ifyou have an ax or a hatchet.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Honestly, I mean that can't be easy to hack through a
roof.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I've never had to.
I'll let you know if I do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm thinking I mean you can't even wield it and it's
on an angle and yeah, I don'tknow.
It gives you a shot, keeps youbusy until you drown.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, thank you or fire right, I was thinking
probably going to swing a littlewith a little more gust.
Yeah, I guess that's why youhave the crowbar, though use the
crowbar to ply right, to plythe boards apart, and then the
hatchet to get through whateveryou need to get through.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Now we're talking and remember where that comes from.
Try it out.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You're at it.
There is a company out therewho wants to pay to have us do
this.
We're going to make it astrongman competition.
The three of us are going tocut through a fake attic.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's right, we're going to go up there.
We'll put our gloves on, putour mask on, put our glasses on
Anybody in Pallisker.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
If you're interested in sponsoring this event, we
would love to have you host this, let's not go wrong Alcohol and
axes in the attic.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Ooh, alcohol, axes, attic.
I think we need to make us tossthe caber.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh he's using all his pants.
Hey look, I've picked it,meaning I've picked it up right.
So that's calling pick, pickedit.
But they wouldn't let me throwit because it was starting to
lean a little too far.
So you've got to be safe withnovices, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
All right, let's get back to business stuff.
So since we've met Ian andtalked to him and has all this
wealth of information andunderstanding around national
disaster preparedness, you alsostarted to say wait a minute, I
got something I can do, I canoffer back to people.
So you've been coaching somepeople.
So let's talk about yourbusiness coaching and what
you're doing.
What's your angle, what's yourdifference?
What are you doing with peopleto get them?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
ready.
I mean there's a beautifultransition and don't worry, I'm
going to come back to otherthings we can do to prepare your
business.
We'll catch that at the otherend.
However, when I'm notresponding to a disaster or in
deployment, I have been doingexecutive coaching since 2003,.
(23:54):
But I've been coaching since Iwas a sophomore in high school.
So I became proficient.
I was a decathlete placed 17thin Massachusetts State Decathlon
, had to learn each of thoseevents, became experts,
technical experts in those, andI would teach many people and
ended up being an assistanttrack coach for the throwing
events at my alma mater, beloitcollege, which I believe just
made the Forbes laptop 25 listor something.
So yay, beloit.
(24:14):
Um.
So what's the?
What's the difference?
So you know who.
Who are my clients?
If you're somebody you know,you open the fridge door and you
look at that salad that's aboutto to be compost and you made a
promise to yourself you weregoing to eat that you could be
my client.
If you're somebody who like, oh, I'm going to catch up this
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weekend and yet rarely, if ever,do.
If you're in mid-career andyou're not sure, you just go to
work and you're not reallyfeeling like what you're doing
is meeting your personal missionor it's just no longer
satisfying to you.
We go back to your favoriteChurchill quote do what you like
(25:03):
, but like what you do.
So I have programs to help dothese sorts of things.
Whether it's magnetic networking, where I help people network to
find that great next job,whether it is career counseling,
career clarity, career curation, I've worked with people who've
actually designed their own joband then sold it to their
executive, and in fact, one ofmy current clients did that, uh,
(25:26):
at a prior firm.
He's now in a small businessowner.
I have sent his name along tobe interviewed.
When, uh, when you guys getaround to him, uh, amazing guy,
absolutely amazing.
Uh, he, you know, fights forhis people.
They're now doing hot washes.
So a hot wash is something wedo.
Let's say, we finish the showand then Chris is going to ask
(25:48):
hey, what are the three thingsthat could have gone better and
the three things that wentreally well?
That's a hot wash.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So we each pick three things that went well,
completely different than thehot wash I was thinking of.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Where was you?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm not going there, you sure?
Yeah, all right, I'm still onthe cheetah money.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, All right.
I was hot washing at thecheetah money and I was like
that's enough Hot wax.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Hot wax.
There's a whole different room.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Mama San found me a whole different room there's a
piglet I don't want in my headany longer.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This is where I know I am just a.
So he's doing, where are wehe's?
So you know, my client is doinghot washes with his team, all
right, so hot wash, and threethings that went well during
this meeting.
Right Three things that couldhave gone better, whether it's a
meeting, your week, your month,your revenue, right.
(26:38):
So what they're doing onFridays is getting together to
say, all right, what worked wellthis this week and what didn't,
and they're doing it on theirown, even hot wash.
Doing a hot wash and this is avery common thing we do after
exercises or operations and thereason why we call it a hot wash
is we're probably all standingin a circle at the airport Like
we're all about to go back to doour regular lives and we want
(26:59):
to quickly capture what wentwell and what didn't.
This works extraordinarily wellfor you, small business owners.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
The standup meeting.
I like that idea as well.
That's new Is that you'restanding up and we don't have
time for chit-chat becausepeople sit down.
Hey, do you have a minute andsit down?
I'm like I do.
No, you can stand up.
That meeting goes a lot quicker, my friends.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You've removed all the chairs but one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I do, and that one is exactly, not exactly chair
height, it's more like kittyheight.
A little stool in the corner Ido, and it's right under my
chair.
Yeah, looking down on them so Ican go.
Are we done with thisconversation now?
Is there more you want to?
You want to discuss this more?
I can, but no, I love thatbecause it does.
It forces people to be a lotmore effective and choose their
words wisely and think throughthings and realize that we're
not going to sit here and shootthe shit for 30 minutes.
(27:48):
Absolutely.
We're going to actually getafter it, figure something out
and move on.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I mean, you could go through 15 people and
then you know you, you have got45 data points.
And then, of course, what we doin our world is we'll do a full
on after action.
We'll look at all theevaluations we did, you know,
and essentially we're we'reattempting to get to the root
cause again for small businessowners.
What are the root causes?
Why didn't you hit that revenuenumber?
If you don't measure it, youdon't manage it.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Usually it starts with D and ends with MS.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You fire extinguisher .
Noise oh.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Hey, I've got to start off this.
Johnny Carson bits, here we go,all right.
So you come in, you help peoplewith the business coaching work
on some of these things to helpthem become more effective.
But one of the things youmentioned that was, I think,
very interesting is you'rehelping people either exit the
one they're in, their jobthey're in and move to another
one, so that's more like careertransition, it's part of it
Really.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's more of a career transition, it's part of it
Really.
I'm a huge fan of RichardBowles' what Color Is your
Parachute?
And I use that as part of thethree-legged stool in this
endeavor.
And that is, you've got to do alittle self-evaluation, you've
got to figure out what lightsyou up, and so I often will look
(29:08):
to people's avocations, whatthey like to do, volunteering,
what they like to do in theirspare time, and then how do we
transition that into a vocationwhere they can make a living, or
at least a partial living?
You know, call on.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Chris, a cruise director.
What would that?
What would that make you?
What's my avocation?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, so Vegas, fast cars, fast boats, beach
mountains, women water, hotwater hot water definitely yeah,
I think and I'm thinking maybeI did miss my calling out.
I should have been.
I should have been on the loveboat.
I should have been a cruisedirector.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm the boat director I mean, look, ai is not going
to get us for a little bit.
We might all end up living to125.
I mean we've got to prepare.
We've got to prepare now.
Longevity is going to be athing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I wouldn't take the over on that one for me.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I mean honestly, I wouldn't take the over on it if
I was 50 on that one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
But I appreciate the ad.
Can I have some more bourbon?
You want bourbon or do you wantthe dark and stormy?
You're welcome.
And then the third piece of whatI'm doing now, because this is
really landing with Gen Xers whoare mid-career is a thing
called AI on ramp.
And so you know, I know a lotof people are anti-AI or don't
trust it.
What have you?
All I can tell you is this AIis a language, and if you aren't
(30:32):
fluent with this language, youcould be fundamentally
unemployable by the end of thedecade, because it's just, it's
going to become ubiquitous.
It is going to be somethingthat you can, that maximizes
your skill and, for me,creativity.
Right, it's not quite Jarvis.
However, I can tell you, in thethree years that I've been
(30:52):
using it on an almost dailybasis, it has vastly improved,
and, of course, we never thoughtit would take the creative jobs
we thought it was.
Oh, this is going to.
You know, do the nuts and boltsstuff.
It's going to be a while beforewe have plumbers and handy
people.
Right, we will probably getthere, but we got to worry about
, you know, 5 million truckdrivers being out of work, and
you know that's.
(31:13):
So.
Let's, let's, find a way tointerface with this device, play
with it at the level thatyou're comfortable with.
I've seen people who put theirdreams into it and it shows and
you can tell you like, hey,here's what's going on in your
life.
This is why you're dreamingthat.
That's what this stands for,too.
I wrote you know RickLaScorella's bio, uh, in.
(31:36):
I think it took about sevenseconds and it was awesome.
Right, all about the prompting,how, how carefully we can you
will use a page, two pages, toreally, you know, garbage in,
garbage out to get the rightthing.
And so I'm just trying to meetthe user where they are with AI
and then find ways that they canuse it in a safe manner.
What the company that Icontract for?
(31:57):
They've created a thing calledAstrid.
I not going to say any more,more than that, but it's
essentially a safe space whereyou put.
It's not connected.
It doesn't draw its source fromthe internet, right?
It only draws from its designdocument, and so you can put in
(32:20):
a let's call it a, you know ashrimp recipe and it will say
well, first of all you've got tobe worried about food safety,
and then you've got to worryabout food.
You know preparation, notcutting yourself.
Then you get, and it wasawesome.
I mean, this is something thatyou could use on a high powered
(32:42):
homeland security or emergencymanagement Exercise, and yet the
way it drew from its designdocument was to give you that
sort of safety approachAbsolutely failed.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh, so that's what you meant by safe place, not
like safe word.
Oh gosh, whoops.
Sorry, I just was wondering.
All right, you have to pull usthere, don't you?
I do?
All right, let's go back.
So, ai, I love that.
Everybody's talking about itthere, don't you I do?
All right, let's go back.
So, ai, I love everybody'stalking about it.
What is one thing that youwould do today that you didn't?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
do before AI that helps you in your biz or in
anything.
So the most important thingthat I've learned about AI is
have it ask you a series ofquestions about whatever topic
you're diving into, one at atime, informing the answer with
the next question.
So if I ask okay, this is my,the avatar of my client, ask me
(33:34):
a question are they more likethis or more like that?
Okay, well, I need somebody whorecognizes that they're
probably.
You know that we have.
One of the key terms in mybusiness is overcome yourself.
It self-qualifies the client.
They recognize that they've gotto fundamentally change
(33:55):
themselves in order to get adifferent result.
If that doesn't land with you,or you don't like that, you're
probably not my client.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
But you use these prompting questions, uh, to help
identify what you should betalking about.
So use that a little moreself-reflect.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'll tell you what I just.
I mean that is so different,cause I'm thinking okay, you use
AI to help create your avatar,but basically you're you're
having the AI help you createthe avatar the other way around.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Right, it's a little bit of both and I'll use I'll
use a parallel example.
So one of the things that cameup with this, that's exactly
where that first pain point ornot the first, I think it was
the third about that.
Are you somebody who saysyou're going to catch up this
weekend?
Three quarters of that came outof AI and it has amassed it
(34:46):
from a, an amazing course I'm in.
It's called Visions to Ventures.
We meet every two weeks.
We'll meet this Friday andwe've been creating a whole
marketing package inside of my.
I call my, my AI is calledResonance inside of ChatGBT, and
so it has captured, you know,my business philosophy integrity
, discipline, execution and thenhas rolled a whole bunch of
(35:14):
avatar elements from my currentclients where I think I'm going.
And then I did something crazyto really answer your question.
I listened to three or fourYouTube videos.
I think it was Alan Watts.
I've always followed a Warner,earhart, landmark, landmark,
forum, carl Jung and I can'tremember who the, and and
(35:35):
Spinoza, and so I threw thosefour into the AI and it knows my
integrity, discipline,execution model and I said it
told me about all the alignment,where these things are aligned
from each right quote, you know,basically highlighting each,
each thinker.
And then I asked it one ofthese questions where what
(36:00):
elements of each of thesethinkers have I not?
Is not currently in the list.
The summary that you've createdfor me, oh, ian, hold by boom,
right, so it's thinking and itgenerates all that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I love that one.
Ask me the question.
I haven't asked you that.
I should have asked you Ahundred percent.
That one has been prettypowerful for me in using AI to
help with some things.
That's been great, and younamed four people.
Did you know any one of thosefour people?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
No, Yep, I was there.
I was over there, well, andwhat's funny is that this is
exactly what I say to peoplewhen they're interviewing.
Your last question in aninterview from the career
counseling perspective, is whatquestion should I have asked you
?
And that really lets theinterviewer's guard down.
They're like that's a greatquestion.
(36:50):
Let me think about that.
They may not have anything.
I've had people say to me and myclients that question, that's
the question that tells me right, you're a high powered thinker,
you're about problem solving,you care about what I'm looking
for.
It really sets you apart, andso I swear by this process.
(37:11):
You know that I learned fromWarren McKee, who's the leader
of Visions, to Ventures and theway I work with this now.
So you know, I told you what Ihad already done these four
thinkers and then I said whatabout adding Gandhi, churchill,
john Maxwell, brene Brown?
I just listed off all thesegreat coaches and thinkers and
(37:34):
it just laid the entire thingout.
Wow, and that's really, when youthink about it, I was a
translator between the red tapeof government and the bleeding
red ink of private sector.
I am clearly going to be atranslator between people who
don't want to have anything todo with AI and actually using it
.
And really here I want tocreate an on-ramp with my
(37:56):
offering that, if you're a, ifyou're devoted to John Maxwell,
I will tell you about what itwas like to lead volunteers and
save the taxpayer half a milliondollars to $ 1.7 million
dollars I'm chewing checkersover here because I um, I used
to help me set my fantasyfootball draft exactly.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You did not, I did, why not?
And it was close.
It was a little a little, uh,benign, little kind of vanilla,
but it was, um, pretty good.
I'm like I'm drafting 10th inthe 12-person league.
This is the league format.
Look at that.
What do you think my firstthree options are going to be in
round one?
I love it, given that I takeoption one.
What do you think my comebackshould be in the second one?
(38:34):
And it was relatively close,except my draft never follows
any kind of logic because ourguys are all over the board.
But clearly, I'm doing it forfantasy football, you're doing
it for deep thinking.
I did.
I would say how I'd used it,though.
Uh, here's a practical examplefor a lot of home service people
.
I was in a house today.
She says I want to do my wholebasement.
(38:55):
Okay.
Now I said do you have a hopenumber?
And she said a number thatbasically wouldn't even get me,
uh, framing out a half a room.
And I was like, okay, so we'reway off.
And she went what I said let'sjust start cranking the numbers.
And I just put it all in thechat GPT.
I put all the dimensions inthere.
I said I want you to calculatethe drywall, the insulation, the
framing lumber and then give mean estimated price on that.
(39:17):
And I showed her that the pricealone from reputable sources,
the depots, the lows, themenards, they pulled from all
three.
And I said the price alone forthat lumber not even with me
marking this up, if you hadn'tbought everything is now twice
what you just said.
And she went oh my god, I'mlike yeah.
And I said I haven't evenstarted hitting them with a
hammer.
And I just showed her on thephone and she goes what are you
(39:38):
using?
I said chat GPT.
She goes so we with me justbeing in front of her, being
very transparent, showing herlook, it's not even me thinking,
this is me just using thisdevice in my hand just to show
you something.
And it changed the entireconversation.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
And I've heard multiple people doing this.
Right, they like hey, here arethree phases, Give me the
options.
Anyway, it's gone from being agenius five-year-old to a genius
eight, maybe 12-year-old.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, I agree, and it's always going to hallucinate
.
And yet, the more power thatyou can put into this, either
reducing options give me this orbe this person you'll get a
better result.
And the key is you've got tohave that human review.
You can't just copy and send,because you'll I'll always catch
(40:31):
something, I'll catch somethingthat's off, but it's ability to
synthesize that information andto have you know I was making
the joke.
One of the marketing pieces Imay use is I've studied
everything from Socrates toSpinoza, so that you don't have
to.
What I'm going to give you arethe nuggets, absolute golden
(40:51):
nuggets from their thinking,their way of being that alters
your entire life.
Right?
So the Socratic.
If I had to pick one Socraticmethod, if you are asking
questions, you're going to winthe day because you are
understanding the other person.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (41:08):
by that Was that that there's gotta be more than one.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Now it was it was a little harsh for a Sandler
reverse.
This is how it would sound likein a Sandler world.
Yeah Gosh, ian, that's reallyinteresting.
What do you?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
RCA dog.
You go back and forth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Again, you got to be authentic,that's the biggest thing.
100%, yeah, that's the biggest.
So, very interesting.
So that's where you're kind ofevolving your business coaching.
But now let's get back topreparedness.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to sell myself as an
authenticity coach, and yetthat's really what I do.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
I think you coach and yet that's really what I do is,
I agree, I help people get intouch with the thing that lights
them up, uh, really reframing,like, what I love is when people
go.
Oh, you know what I actually dohave great, you know, work-life
balance.
I did.
You know I was able to do thisand and uh, one of my favorite
things that I tell people islook on, on Wednesday evenings,
I clean kitchens and bathrooms.
Ideally, on Friday evening orSaturday, I clean the rest of
the house and that way I canenjoy my environment for the
(42:09):
weekend.
And I'll never forget when Isaid that to a coaching client,
it altered his entire life.
Right, do these things at 10items a day.
You need a break.
You're tired of doing workquickly.
Go do something physical andand move the 10 things.
Organize 10 things at the endof that week.
Right, you've done 70operations and it doesn't feel
(42:32):
like you went, you know,head-to-head with a fire
extinguisher.
That didn't work, yeah, oh itworked.
No, the first one.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
No, the first one.
It went three seconds.
Oh right, I got you yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Working on my sound effects effects coming later
next soundboard, we'll get thesound effects.
All right, let's talk.
Let's get back to it, becausewe're gosh, we're oh my god,
it's already almost done withour uh episode.
Alan, we've got to talkpreparedness, so the
government's not here to help me.
What do I need to be doing?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
well, if you're a small business owner, let's make
sure you have all those thingsthat we talked about.
That's the three drives right,get ahead of your external drive
.
Make sure you can copy stuffthat's in the cloud.
Make sure you've got this.
Remember that good, good, pettycash, um, because that's the
thing that's going to make thedifference.
Don't expect.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Look at him, he's now , we had to speak his language,
though we had.
We had to make it real.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I said TIP money.
He's like oh.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It used to be, once man it used to be.
I may have to steal the firstpart of that TIP money.
Right, If you're carrying TIPmoney, then I'm no longer a very
expensive banker.
And then really the key is anydocuments that you need to prove
your business or be able toreceive a grant or loan or what
have you.
Make sure you have that,Because that could mean the
(43:52):
difference between the life anddeath of your business in one of
these events.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
One other thing I would tell everybody is that if
you don't have a good insuranceagent, you need to have them and
you need to have continuousdialogue with them, because in
the event of like again, ifyou're leasing a space and it
goes up in flames, you'releasing a space and the power
goes down in the entire grid fortwo days.
Yep, um, you got to know what'sgoing on and you can call your
insurance agent and go hey, isthere any relief here?
(44:15):
In both cases, not the fire,but the grid uh, our grid went
down for two days.
Uh, he said there is.
Uh, how much of an impact was?
I said, said no, we were ableto go remote right away, so it
really wasn't a big deal.
So we didn't really loseanything other than food and
fridge.
And he was like is thatsomething you want to make a
claim on?
I'm like no, I don't think so.
I said the salad can wait.
(44:35):
I was listening.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
I appreciate the comeback here, matt.
That's great, yeah, and this isexactly when you have.
You know, just like you have tohandle your personal
preparedness.
You've got to handle that foryour people right.
You've got to have acommunication plan, even if it's
a text string.
You've got to know where we'regoing to rally in a disaster and
then how are you going tooutwardly communicate to your
(45:00):
clients and make sure everythingeverybody's feeling okay?
If you haven't't, you know,practiced this or workshop that,
call me in, I'd happily run youthrough a tabletop let me give
you one that just happened to us.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I didn't realize it.
I am not on Verizon, I'm onT-Mobile.
My general manager is onVerizon.
He was not responsive Saturdaynight and Sunday.
I just thought he happened.
He happened to be in themountains or doing whatever and
come to find out there was anoutage in Verizon in the Metro
Atlanta area.
So what would you do insomething like that?
(45:32):
I mean, let's just talk aboutthat, so I have an outage in one
carrier, maybe both carriers,or I don't know.
Tell me what I should tell my32 employees what to do if we
have an outage like that.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Smoke signals no, I'm kidding Always great.
They would have heard the firstword.
By the way, Smoke.
I know the, you know.
For over a decade I carried asecond phone on a different
network.
If you have revenue or if yourbusiness like, if that's serious
(46:04):
, you need to have that, or asat phone or some other way,
right, have a Starlink account,what have you?
So that's one thing.
I have used Facebook tocommunicate with people as a
matter of secondary resort,right.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Somebody's phone went down.
Do you think social media maybe the way, because that's
exactly how he found out that hewas down.
Yeah, he said he got a social.
He was looking on social mediaand said, oh man, it was right
there.
Uh, that's what happened to me.
And so he said, and he was likehe was just falling over.
So I apologize, I apologize,I'm like dude.
Well, how would you know?
Yeah, were they going to sendyou a note saying, oh, by the by
(46:44):
the way, your network's down.
They can't.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
So you have no idea.
Yeah, and in many cases you'vegot companies that have bought,
you know network on the mainnetwork, so they may be a
reseller right, and so itdoesn't matter if you're on X
company.
If the Verizon trunk is down,you're down, and that's critical
(47:07):
to know.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
All right, give me, give me some conspiracy theory
stuff, what again?
Speaker 3 (47:11):
we did go to the moon .
I want to be very clear aboutthis.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
You know, I do have one guy who absolutely said I
can't believe you bought intothat.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I used to and I talked him off the flat earth
edge.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Okay, flat earth edge .
So, conspiracy theories though,we always think, you know, the
government's always listening,ai is always listening, things
are always listening.
Therefore, I'm not going to useit.
So how do you tell people thatyou've got to embrace it?
And oh, by the way, they'vebeen listening to you a lot
longer than you've ever thoughtthey were.
And basically, let's face it,you're that boring.
Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
Well, and legitimately right.
How do I respond to that?
Number one government is sobusy that it doesn't necessarily
have time and space to focus onyou.
This is one of the reasons thatmade me more comfortable with
AI, in that if I wanted learningfrom somebody, I wanted
learning from me.
I wanted learning my ethics.
I wanted being responsible.
(48:05):
It doesn't mean that it alwayswill be my ethics.
I want it being responsible.
It doesn't mean that it alwayswill be.
However, as an example, if allof us are that way right, we may
get a different result, I thinkgo ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Oh no, I was sorry adjusting.
I want to make sure somebodywasn't listening.
I was checking my implantsLooking for drones.
What no?
I didn't say that.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
What, what, no no, we're back, Okay, do we need to
have him committed or just lookdead?
I think you forgot to take apill this morning.
What pill See you always havemy back.
Make sure in your disaster kityou've got your prescriptions.
You can get to yourprescriptions.
Make sure you have it every day, or month.
(48:44):
I mean man, he's awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
I do need that.
That's actually another goodpoint.
It is a good point.
Yep, screw the water.
I need the drugs.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Well, I need water.
How else do you need?
Right, you need the water totake the drugs, right I?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
actually thought about it.
I mean, you're not that farfrom the Chattahoochee.
Do you have a way?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I do up in the mountains.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
I do, but not on me.
I did when I came before I havethe tourniquet today.
Oh Right, I also brought thered bag because I have to bring
you know, you need to be able toreconstitute the federal
government, which we can doright now and the green bag
money bag.
I forgot about the bag.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh, my God, that's right.
I love that you brought thetourniquet.
That's good.
Can we practice on Alan?
Alan, get your leg up here.
Wow, no, it's not for long.
All right, so let's.
For the listeners maybe whodidn't listen to that, let's
explain the bag andreconstituting.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
So, very quickly, I carry a red bag that's got four
copies of the Constitution.
Obviously, Article I is thejudiciary.
You have two houses.
You need two copies of theconstitution for the house and
the Senate.
They must be in the same citybecause they have to conference
as they write laws.
The executive branch, articletwo can be somewhere else.
(49:58):
Judiciary article three can besomewhere else as well, but
you've got to have thelegislative branch together to
create laws and from that, if wehave a pencil and writing paper
, we can reconstitute thegovernment and as we did last
time uh, I was the legislature,the man was land of.
Chris was number two, wasnumber two the executive branch.
(50:21):
And what I loved is Alan's overhere and he's he's reading and
he's like come on, man, we're inthe podcast, like no, no, no,
he's actually studying the laws.
He did, we did loop that one onthat one.
He keeps us in check, right,which is vital.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Riveting podcast when one of the hosts just starts
reading and not engaging at all.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Oh, but then he busted.
Like you know, it's even betterthan in terms so plain as to
command their ascent.
I'm not going to repeat thequote.
You actually have to go backand listen to the podcast
because Alan kills it at that.
It was awesome.
I don't remember that at all.
Of course we're listening toagain.
(51:00):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Really.
I mean, the planet has tocollapse.
You survive.
You've got the red bag.
We can put it back together.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Yeah, I mean, even if it's just, you know the
Southeast survives, right,Region 4 backs up Washington DC
and you know we have to look atour current political
environment.
We have a leader that's talkedabout putting nuclear devices in
the field, right, we had anattack at the CDC.
It's game, I mean, it's a job Imeant to say that at the outset
like it's more gamey and evenmore jungly, uh, than it was
(51:32):
when, when I was here a year ago.
So we got to take care of thisgamey and jungly, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Gamey and jungly?
That's the, that's our podcast,the small business safari.
And we're coming to the end,ian, you did it again.
Man, this has been Gold NuggetCity.
You learned a lot, not onlyabout, maybe, your personal
growth.
Maybe you like a salad, maybeyou don't.
Maybe you like to clean yourtoilets, Maybe you don't.
Don't invite me over, by theway.
Very gaggy Can't handle that.
So, yeah, oh God, no Badtoilets Got to go.
(52:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
I can do it.
I actually do it at our house.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
That's my job.
You clean the toilets.
I'm so proud of you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I don't have to do laundry, but I do toilets.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Oh, it works and oddly enough you can do both in
a Lowe's Home Depot bucket, solong as you have those detergent
strips that you can drop in andhave the toilet seat that fits
over the bucket.
I'm here to help.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
He's always here to help everybody.
Ian A Ian.
How can everybody get ahold ofyou, man?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Let's put that out there again, yeah, so if you
want to reach me, please call meon 770-293-8870.
Again, that's Ian A770-293-8870.
And here live.
If you go tolickitysplitdisasterkitcom
(52:55):
that'slickitysplitdisasterkitcom
you'll be able to add an email,you'll get a quick worksheet and
I'm going to create a specialfor the adventure team.
We'll give you a discount.
I have a 30 minute video thatgoes through my entire disaster
kit and we'll make sure there'sa special for your listeners.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Love it.
All right, guys, go out there.
Lickety split, disaster, kitcom.
All right, we got to do thiseverybody.
Hey, go make it a big day,let's go make it a great week.
Hey, go make it a big day,let's go make it a great week.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Alexander the great said I have no idea.
So, uh, I was like I'm going tobe really impressed right now.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
No, and I'm not no, you shouldn't be, but we got to
make it better.
Keep going, keep driving, keepdigging.
Sometimes it doesn't feel good,sometimes you're down in the
dirt, sometimes you're down inthat tunnel.
You just got to feel bad andyou got to get out.
You got to get running, you gotto get up.
You got to make it happen.
Let's keep it going.
Everybody, make it a great week.
We'll talk to you next week.
Cheers, everybody, cheers.
(53:56):
Thank you for listening to thisepisode of the small business
safari.
Remember your positive attitudewill help you achieve that
higher altitude.
You're looking for a wild world, small business ownership.
And until next time, make it agreat day.
Oh man, are you asking, why are people stupid?
I guess, so that was a wholeother episode.
Yeah, because how about?
This is why, as I rented myhouse, you know, we built the
house in the mountains, werented out and the guy told me
you cannot have a real workingfireplace.
Let me tell you why.
I had a renter who thought theywere doing me a favor and took
(00:20):
the embers out and put them outon the deck and it's a wood deck
, everybody.
So note to self that's nice Hotembers.
Wood deck equals fireextinguisher or fire.
Yeah, he goes, don't do it.
So that's why we took all thegas out.
I have an electric fireplaceand we have electric candles up
there too.
Guess how many times every timewe go up there to check them
(00:44):
out, how many of them are justcharred.
Silly, because people try tolight up all the time.
So let's not go on.
Are people stupid?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I've got the ultimate on that, but I'll save it for
another time.
It's a fire extinguisher.
People are stupid story.
It's pretty good.
All right back to Ian.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't know, why don't you go ahead and, uh, all
right, I can't say anything Idon't want to was it firsthand
you putting it out?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
no, no, it was.
Uh, we had our cabin up in blueridge and I get a call and we'd
had a break-in, and so thesethree idiots and apparently one
of them was barefoot kicked inthe back glass so to get in, and
then obviously that meant theyhad a bloody foot.
So they got into my liquorcabinet they're having a good
(01:32):
time, but then they also gotinto my first aid kit somewhere
along the line.
They must have realized hmm,our fingerprints are all over
this first aid kit.
Let's light it on fire in acabin that's made out of wood
yeah in a stairwell that is allwood and it's super dry, and so
they light that on fire, whichthen catches the stairs on fire.
(01:53):
So then they get my fireextinguisher, which puts out the
fire, thank god, but then ithas the foam all over the place,
which then has their footprintsall over the place.
So at that point then theydecided to rip the water pipe
out of the wall and flood mybasement just to get that
cleaned up.
Did we find these idiots?
We did, thank God for FanninCounty's finest, because I think
(02:15):
in Atlanta they'd be like sucksto be.
You call your insurance companyand they're like I think I know
who that is and I we're goingto get them and we're going to
make them pay you back.
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Welcome to the Small Business Safari where I help
guide you to avoid those traps,pitfalls and dangers that lurk
when navigating the wild worldof small business ownership.
I'll share those gold nuggetsof information and invite guests
to help accelerate your ascentto that mountaintop of success.
It's a jungle out there and Iwant to help you traverse
through the levels of owningyour own business that can get
you bogged down and distract youfrom hitting your own personal
(02:46):
and professional goals.
So strap in Adventure Team andlet's take a ride through the
safari and get you to themountaintop.
We just got the 3, 2, silentcount 1.
And we're started, alan, youdidn't know it, but that's what
we got from our director.
My fingers weren't lined upwith the 3, 2, silent count 1.
And we're started, alan, youdidn't know it, but that's what
(03:07):
we got from our director, myfingers weren't lined up with
the 3, 2, 1.
So we're ready and we're goingto do some SNL kind of stuff
really.
I mean, we're bringing backformer guests, kind of having
the tribute.
You know we just had our fourthyear anniversary, got a lot of
celebration comments about ourfourth year anniversary from the
newsletter that went out.
(03:28):
If you didn't get thenewsletter, please subscribe to
the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
A little preemie podcast.
I have your NPR voice goingtoday.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You like that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, not really All right.
Let me get going, All right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I said he goes man you're always too amped up.
I'm like, all right, buddy I hegoes man you're always too
amped up.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm like, all right, buddy, I'm going to bring it
back.
That's not exactly what I said.
It was just the talking over mepart.
What?
All right, that's enough, let'sgo Back to me.
I'll get back in my corner.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh my gosh.
So, alan, we've got a greatguest today, but before we get
to our guest, it's got to beabout we had to do something on
Labor.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Day, you mean like watch an enormous amount of
college football.
I did, yeah.
How about that?
That was so good.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And we had a guest on who said I think UT all the way
and he found out that BuckeyeNation had a different ID.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I noticed how quickly you played that episode after
it recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes, well, he was great.
I mean, I think I had a lot offun with that one.
And then, especially when hesaid UT was going to beat, I'm
like, oh, we're running that now.
No, I'm kidding, it was, I did.
I watched a lot of football, acopious amount of football,
loved it, ready to go, ready forthe NFL season.
I'm now going to get all sevendays of my week ruined because
(04:40):
I'm betting on college footballand I, of course, have my
fantasy football.
So this ought to be fun.
Seven days of just misery andthen five days of running the
business, isn't it great?
I love it.
I look forward to this time ofyear every year, because I am a
masochist.
All right, alan, we've done it.
Snl style, they always bringback the hosts that they think
(05:01):
are the best, and these guys arealways vying for who gets to
come back.
And we're like, yeah, well, sowe've had people on twice.
Yeah, we've had people on once.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course, but what do we have now?
Have we ever had anybody threetimes?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is the third edition of the Ian Hay episode
experience.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's go the Ian Hay experience in the house.
He's back.
If you don't remember what Iandoes, hold on to your socks,
because he'll tell you aboutyour socks and what you should
do with them.
And it's not what you'rethinking, alan.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You probably need to wet them and put them under your
door in case of a gas attack.
Am I right?
Am I close?
Do I even need?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
to be here for this, and let me just say, if anyone
is going to do the NPR voice,it's going to be yours truly.
That's true, he does that.
I have to hold up theintergalactic adventure team.
Let's strap in and get going.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Let's do this adventure team.
We got to rock and roll, we gota great episode.
We brought ENA back becausewe're going to talk about
disaster preparedness.
We're going to talk aboutexecutive coaching.
We're going to talk about thecrews around the world that
didn't happen and talk about howlack of planning and I can't
wait to hear about this stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh, that's got to be edited, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'll
hear from a lawyer on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, well, let's send you.
Let's know, let's keep that onein.
Yeah, all right.
Yeah All right.
They don't know what we'retalking about.
That's right, let's go then.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They'll forget by then.
Have a bourbon with us.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know what we're having?
Scott Think old malt gotchwhiskey that you can only get in
duty-free stores.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Exactly so.
This is Talisker Dark Storm.
It's one of my favorites DarkStorm.
I'm not trying of, uh, you know, thankfully we haven't had
landfall.
Obviously, aaron was prettydamn close and people it
impacted people in northcarolina, amongst others.
(06:53):
We had multiple people die andrip currents.
I mean, you know really, uh,why I brought the dark storm?
Is I need people or we?
We need people to betterprepare?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And you start with a good bottle of booze in the
basement.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
We call that cellar temperature.
There's one great place to bein any really bad weather and
that's in the cellar.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So let's talk about disaster preparedness a little
bit.
We just talked about hurricanesand we're coming into our
hurricane season.
Here we're in hurricane season,we're fully into hurricane,
we're coming into our hurricaneseason.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Here we're in hurricane season, we're fully
into hurricane, we're cominginto the peak, though the peak,
but it's been quiet.
Knock on wood, it has beenquiet and we've had such a wet,
hideous, I just thought, oh,this is going to be a horrible
year and nothing so far.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I mean, it's the craziest.
I've been in Georgia for 25years.
Right Little three-year stintin DC, four deployments this is
by far the most bizarre weatherthat I remember in Georgia Super
hot summer, my electric bill isout of control, and then all of
a sudden we have this cool downand this massive high pressure
that really prevented that stormfrom making landfall, and so I
(08:03):
think we got super lucky.
It has tamped down, you know,production and the peak for just
is September 11th throughOctober 10th, so that's really
the window where we are mostproductive, the peak and high
point for hurricanes in theNorth Atlantic, and that's why
you know we need people to bebetter prepared.
So here we are it's September,it's National Preparedness Month
(08:25):
, obviously in recognition of9-11, and what I want people to
do is to really focus on havingthat lickety-split disaster kit,
knowing what your plan is.
Remember, here come the—I alwayslike to launch with the golden
nuggets Text don't call.
If you send me a cross street,I can find you.
If you don't send me anything,I have no idea.
(08:47):
Just remember that when yousend three of your friends the
cross street of where you are,that when you're safe, you say
all clear, or I am safe, or whathave you, because if I don't
hear from you, I'm going to workand we're either going to find
you or we're going to find adead body.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But we're going to find something.
Uh-oh man, that is a dark storm.
It is a dark storm.
It's also we're celebrating ananniversary of Katrina hitting
in New Orleans, and that'sbringing up a lot of
documentaries, a lot of news,and kind of bringing that back
and how it affected us here inAtlanta is a lot of people had
to evacuate and end up here inAtlanta for that.
But you went back and looked atthis.
(09:25):
So we've had kind of a luckydisaster.
You know hurricane season herein the Southeast.
But one of the things we talkedabout right before we got on
air is that, with what's goingon and we're not doing the
political thing, but whensomething like this happens, we
rely on our federal governmentto help us, and our state
governments usually back us up.
But right now, in the currentenvironment, are you concerned
(09:46):
that there won't be that supportthat we're hoping for if
something big happens?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, you know, I think you know, post 9-11, and
one of the reasons why we didthat short, you know, 20-minute
episode on the Lickety SplitDisaster Kit was to really
increase preparedness, and thisobviously is critical for our
small business owners as well.
So the thing you've got to takein, you know, keep in mind is
that we usually have more benchstrength.
(10:11):
Right, the FEMA apparatus wouldhave been in place.
When you have a large, you know, scaled, multi-state
jurisdiction disaster, you needthat bench strength to people
who know how to do procurementright.
Is it a great idea to put moremoney toward the states for
their own preparedness so thatthey can choose the types of
(10:34):
disasters that they face and bebetter prepared for that?
Sure, we just don't have anapparatus right now, and so one
of the things we want to makesure is that you individually,
your family, your pets, areprepared for that disaster, and
also for your small businessowners.
Make sure you have your backupfiles.
Make sure that, as long as youcan get to a computer without a
(10:57):
network, everything is in theright.
If you have everything in thecloud, man, please, please,
please, please, please, hear me,ask me how I know.
Make sure you have a copy thatyou keep somewhere else.
So I have.
I have three drive, actuallyfive drives, but I have three.
One gets rotated in and out ofmy strong box, uh, in the bank,
and the other two one is awayfrom us and the other uh, you
(11:21):
know the other is in in the caror with a friend, wherever it is
.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But the key is to make sure anything that you have
in the cloud it sounds likewe've got the air horn going off
in our ears, but no, we havedisaster preparedness happening
right now in Lalamia's house.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I am so impressed that you created these special
sound effects Right.
It sounds like an air horn.
I feel like we're right in themiddle of reconstruction.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Right, it's just perfect.
That's what we're doing, butdon't worry, you won't hear this
on the podcast.
But what's going on is we areremodeling the house right now.
I'll put pictures up eventually.
But back to these drives.
When you say your drives, thisis all your personal financial
information, personal what?
What is on those drives?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
A hundred percent.
I just want to note that theprofessionally trained PIO did
not break character.
I would have kept going if thatnoise didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It was probably not no, you were doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'm like I am staying in, I like I'm on a camera live
.
So yes, when I say drive and.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Alan went squirrel on us, I know.
Thank you, alan.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, we have problems with sound all the time
, so I figured why not?
I love this.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He's very, he's very bougie about his sound.
And look my friend RichardMiller right who, who uh, runs
mission control studios inArizona.
He's like looking and peoplewill tolerate bad video they
will not tolerate that audio.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Who else said something like that?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Uh, Winston Churchill , oh.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I knew that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Warmer Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Okay, oh brother, anyway, can we get back to Ian?
What's on those drives?
What should I save on thosethings?
Save on them, well, yourfantasy league, of course,
that's number one.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Hey look, anything that drives revenue right.
So if that's your thing, youknow, make sure you keep the
Powerball ticket in there.
But no, basically, yes, anexternal drive, am I over under?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
bets for the NFL Falcons over Wow Gym card.
Yeah, Perfect Gym card.
No, the gym card is golfhandicap.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yep, I have that on the phone.
That's right, got to have that.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But anything you store digitally, make sure you
have a paper copy.
Okay, there you have it,meaning anything that's critical
.
I'm not saying you got to haveeverything.
Another thing we you know, makesure you have pictures of your
family or your pet, just in caseyou can't access your digital
device, in case they go missing.
You want to be able to findthem or post something,
(13:35):
reproduce that image.
But really the most importantthree golden nuggets is text.
Text, don't call, give me acrossroads where I can find you.
Have that plan of communicationwith your family.
Number two if you've got a lotof information in the cloud,
don't be reliant on that's goingto be there, right?
So make sure you have thatbacked up.
You're storing it in differentlocations.
And then, third, you got tohave cash.
(13:57):
Like we are such a cashlesssociety and go for small
denominations, otherwise I'm avery expensive banker.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So hundreds is not good.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If you want to pay everything for $100 for
everything, sure, oh, I see whatyou're saying.
Yeah, just like I've got, getyour cheetah money.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
All right, oh, that's well.
That's turning into 20s and 50s.
That's a different story.
Don't ask me how I know thatone either.
Back to the vault, please, somuch.
Let's go back to the vaultAgain.
Pictures, Pictures of what?
Nope, not those pictures.
Got you Identification pictures?
What?
When did that mole?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
get there.
We literally cannot take himanywhere.
No, this is what makes this fun.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Ah, let's keep going.
So, disaster preparedness, soyou got to have it.
Personally, one of the thingsyou talked about with your
lickety split kit is a couple ofthings we have to have.
What's the one thing that Alanremembers?
Oh, this is great Quiz time.
Lickety split kit, licketysplit kit, disaster kit,
disaster.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I think I've already said it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It is a bottle of your favorite booze that makes
you happy in the middle of astorm.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't remember that being in the kit, but I'm
adding that ding ding ding.
Look, it's a great tradepartner.
You can trade it for thosecritical things.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Watch this water water, food, batteries, cash,
yeah, some sort of way to makefire light now, that's what I
remembered all right, let's makesome fire.
Maybe, maybe something to keepwarm, like one of those
reflective things I don't know,a Zodiac boat, does that fit?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
A Zodiac boat.
Yeah, okay, what's?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
a Zodiac boat.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's a little inflatable one that you just get
it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know you can get out of Dodge with.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, I can just see that.
You know the one where I havethe phone and I go, I go, I've
got one in my attic and now.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I got to Because, Ian , you do not have a no.
What should you have in yourattic?
Here we go.
Now it's really time An axe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, good call.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Huh, I remember that.
No, you didn't.
I didn't you remember when Isaid it, I do.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's right in your attic.
Never know when you have to getout.
I actually have a hatchet rightnear my bed, just in case.
Windows right there, but justin case, and note to self, make
sure, do you sleepwalk?
No, no, no, we don't do that Imean I'm Matt.
Debusin.
So there's a great opportunityhere to do a Lizzie Borden joke,
but we'll leave that behind.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, no All right, so lickety-split, let's talk about
just personal things.
I'll get over to whatbusinesses need to do To be
prepared.
What you said is in every roomwe needed to have a couple of
things as well, right?
Wouldn't you say that?
No, go ahead.
I thought it was fireextinguishers In every room.
I remember him saying, not injust the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Right, so, ideally, what I have are fire blankets.
Right so, I have a fireextinguisher downstairs in the
kitchen, where it's most likely,and then I have a fire blanket
upstairs in the event, like we.
How many electronic devices dowe have plugged in now?
Right so these little fireblankets are great for an
electrical fire.
You just lay the blanket overthe burning and it kills the
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oxygen, puts the fire out.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh, and then you don't have to use a crap all
over your house.
See, I almost remembered it wasa fire blanket, not a fire
extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
By the way, and I just want our listeners to know
if anybody's like me, I hadnever used a fire extinguisher
until this last year.
Oh do tell.
Yeah, well, I'm on the HOAboard and somebody texted me and
there was a trash can on fireup at the clubhouse and so they
were freaking out.
Let's call the fire departmentand everything.
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I'm like I got a fireextinguisher, I'll just go up
and use it and on the way therewere you going.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Fully ensconced in a Minions outfit.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I mean, I was honestly, I was rolling my eyes
Like really, and I get there andthere's a pretty good amount of
fire coming out of the hugetrash cans that we have here in
Georgia.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Literally a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was literally a dumpster fire, and so I thought
I had all the weaponry I neededand I pulled the trigger and it
was empty.
At that point I'm like thereisn't a whole lot in here.
But it appeared that the firewas out and the next thing, you
know, the flames came back.
So you know, saving a couple ofbucks by getting a little
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vanity boutique, you know smallone.
No, you need I think you need areal fire extinguisher.
So I did.
You know, everybody panicked atthat and I just rolled the,
rolled the trash can into themiddle of the parking lot and
then the fire fire departmentcame and they just ceremonially
walked out and it was a goddamnbirthday party.
Nobody threw their birthdayparty.
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How do you not make sure thecandles are out?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, man, oh, are you asking why are people stupid?
I guess there's a whole another.
Yeah, because, um, how aboutthe?
This is why, as I rent, rentedmy house.
Uh, you know, we built thehouse in the mountains, we
rented out and the guy told meyou cannot have a real working
fireplace.
Let me tell you why.
I had a renter who thought theywere doing me a favor and took
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the embers out and put them outon the deck and it's a wood deck
, everybody.
So note to self, that's niceHot embers.
Wood deck equals fireextinguisher or fire.
Yeah, he goes, don't do it.
So that's why we took all thegas out.
When I have an electricfireplace and we have electric
candles up there too, guess howmany times every time we go up
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there to check them out, howmany of them are just charred.
Silly, because people try tolight up all the time.
So let's not go on our peoplestupid.
I've got the ultimate on that,but I'll save it for another
time.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's a fire extinguisher, people are stupid
story.
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right back to Ian , I don't know why don't you go
ahead and say it?
I?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
can't say anything I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Was it firsthand you putting it out?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No, it was.
We had our cabin up in BlueRidge and I get a call and we'd
had a break-in, and so thesethree idiots and apparently one
of them was barefoot kicked inthe back glass to get in, and
then obviously that meant theyhad a bloody foot.
So they got in my liquorcabinet they're having a good
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time.
But then they also got into myfirst aid kit.
Somewhere along the line theymust have realized hmm, our
fingerprints are all over thisfirst aid kit.
Let's light it on fire.
In a cabin that's made out ofwood, yeah, in a stairwell that
is all wood and it's super dry,and so they light that on fire,
which then catches the stairs onfire.
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So then they get my fireextinguisher, which puts out the
fire, thank god, but then ithas the foam all over the place,
which then has their footprintsall over the place.
So at that point then theydecided to rip the water pipe
out of the wall and flood mybasement just to get that
cleaned up.
Did we find these idiots?
We did, Thank God, for FanninCounty's finest, because I think
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in Atlanta they'd be like sucksto be.
You call your insurance companyand they were like I think I
know who that is, and we'regoing to get them and we're
going to make them pay you back.
That is, and we're going to getthem and we're going to make
them pay you back.
Oh, that's awesome.
And for years I got these weirdlittle I'm sure they were
garnished check bits sent to me.
Wow, as a result, that'sawesome.
Yeah, that is a good story.
That's a victory right there.
I love it.
(21:21):
Give a small garnish.
But they called me so manyyears later and they're like
it's going to trial and I'm likeI don't even really remember
other than what I just told you.
I mean, I'm like just dowhatever you need to do, but
please don't bring me into court, because it's so far in my past
I mean, it was like eight yearsyeah, Wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
All right.
So disaster preparedness beingready in your own home, be ready
to use your fire extinguisher.
I love it.
And let's double check.
We got fire blankets on eachfloor that's what it was, not
each room and an ax or a hatchetin your attic if you ever have
to escape out or let the Even ifyou have an ax or a hatchet.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Honestly, I mean that can't be easy to hack through a
roof.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I've never had to.
I'll let you know if I do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm thinking I mean you can't even wield it and it's
on an angle and yeah, I don'tknow.
It gives you a shot, keeps youbusy until you drown.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, thank you or fire right, I was thinking
probably going to swing a littlewith a little more gust.
Yeah, I guess that's why youhave the crowbar, though use the
crowbar to ply right, to plythe boards apart, and then the
hatchet to get through whateveryou need to get through.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Now we're talking and remember where that comes from.
Try it out.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You're at it.
There is a company out therewho wants to pay to have us do
this.
We're going to make it astrongman competition.
The three of us are going tocut through a fake attic.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's right, we're going to go up there.
We'll put our gloves on, putour mask on, put our glasses on
Anybody in Pallisker.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
If you're interested in sponsoring this event, we
would love to have you host this, let's not go wrong Alcohol and
axes in the attic.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Ooh, alcohol, axes, attic.
I think we need to make us tossthe caber.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh he's using all his pants.
Hey look, I've picked it,meaning I've picked it up right.
So that's calling pick, pickedit.
But they wouldn't let me throwit because it was starting to
lean a little too far.
So you've got to be safe withnovices, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
All right, let's get back to business stuff.
So since we've met Ian andtalked to him and has all this
wealth of information andunderstanding around national
disaster preparedness, you alsostarted to say wait a minute, I
got something I can do, I canoffer back to people.
So you've been coaching somepeople.
So let's talk about yourbusiness coaching and what
you're doing.
What's your angle, what's yourdifference?
What are you doing with peopleto get them?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
ready.
I mean there's a beautifultransition and don't worry, I'm
going to come back to otherthings we can do to prepare your
business.
We'll catch that at the otherend.
However, when I'm notresponding to a disaster or in
deployment, I have been doingexecutive coaching since 2003,.
(23:54):
But I've been coaching since Iwas a sophomore in high school.
So I became proficient.
I was a decathlete placed 17thin Massachusetts State Decathlon
, had to learn each of thoseevents, became experts,
technical experts in those, andI would teach many people and
ended up being an assistanttrack coach for the throwing
events at my alma mater, beloitcollege, which I believe just
made the Forbes laptop 25 listor something.
So yay, beloit.
(24:14):
Um.
So what's the?
What's the difference?
So you know who.
Who are my clients?
If you're somebody you know,you open the fridge door and you
look at that salad that's aboutto to be compost and you made a
promise to yourself you weregoing to eat that you could be
my client.
If you're somebody who like, oh, I'm going to catch up this
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weekend and yet rarely, if ever,do.
If you're in mid-career andyou're not sure, you just go to
work and you're not reallyfeeling like what you're doing
is meeting your personal missionor it's just no longer
satisfying to you.
We go back to your favoriteChurchill quote do what you like
(25:03):
, but like what you do.
So I have programs to help dothese sorts of things.
Whether it's magnetic networking, where I help people network to
find that great next job,whether it is career counseling,
career clarity, career curation, I've worked with people who've
actually designed their own joband then sold it to their
executive, and in fact, one ofmy current clients did that, uh,
(25:26):
at a prior firm.
He's now in a small businessowner.
I have sent his name along tobe interviewed.
When, uh, when you guys getaround to him, uh, amazing guy,
absolutely amazing.
Uh, he, you know, fights forhis people.
They're now doing hot washes.
So a hot wash is something wedo.
Let's say, we finish the showand then Chris is going to ask
(25:48):
hey, what are the three thingsthat could have gone better and
the three things that wentreally well?
That's a hot wash.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
So we each pick three things that went well,
completely different than thehot wash I was thinking of.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Where was you?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm not going there, you sure?
Yeah, all right, I'm still onthe cheetah money.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, All right.
I was hot washing at thecheetah money and I was like
that's enough Hot wax.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Hot wax.
There's a whole different room.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Mama San found me a whole different room there's a
piglet I don't want in my headany longer.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This is where I know I am just a.
So he's doing, where are wehe's?
So you know, my client is doinghot washes with his team, all
right, so hot wash, and threethings that went well during
this meeting.
Right Three things that couldhave gone better, whether it's a
meeting, your week, your month,your revenue, right.
(26:38):
So what they're doing onFridays is getting together to
say, all right, what worked wellthis this week and what didn't,
and they're doing it on theirown, even hot wash.
Doing a hot wash and this is avery common thing we do after
exercises or operations and thereason why we call it a hot wash
is we're probably all standingin a circle at the airport Like
we're all about to go back to doour regular lives and we want
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to quickly capture what wentwell and what didn't.
This works extraordinarily wellfor you, small business owners.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
The standup meeting.
I like that idea as well.
That's new Is that you'restanding up and we don't have
time for chit-chat becausepeople sit down.
Hey, do you have a minute andsit down?
I'm like I do.
No, you can stand up.
That meeting goes a lot quicker, my friends.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You've removed all the chairs but one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I do, and that one is exactly, not exactly chair
height, it's more like kittyheight.
A little stool in the corner Ido, and it's right under my
chair.
Yeah, looking down on them so Ican go.
Are we done with thisconversation now?
Is there more you want to?
You want to discuss this more?
I can, but no, I love thatbecause it does.
It forces people to be a lotmore effective and choose their
words wisely and think throughthings and realize that we're
not going to sit here and shootthe shit for 30 minutes.
(27:48):
Absolutely.
We're going to actually getafter it, figure something out
and move on.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I mean, you could go through 15 people and
then you know you, you have got45 data points.
And then, of course, what we doin our world is we'll do a full
on after action.
We'll look at all theevaluations we did, you know,
and essentially we're we'reattempting to get to the root
cause again for small businessowners.
What are the root causes?
Why didn't you hit that revenuenumber?
If you don't measure it, youdon't manage it.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Usually it starts with D and ends with MS.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You fire extinguisher .
Noise oh.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Hey, I've got to start off this.
Johnny Carson bits, here we go,all right.
So you come in, you help peoplewith the business coaching work
on some of these things to helpthem become more effective.
But one of the things youmentioned that was, I think,
very interesting is you'rehelping people either exit the
one they're in, their jobthey're in and move to another
one, so that's more like careertransition, it's part of it
Really.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's more of a career transition, it's part of it
Really.
I'm a huge fan of RichardBowles' what Color Is your
Parachute?
And I use that as part of thethree-legged stool in this
endeavor.
And that is, you've got to do alittle self-evaluation, you've
got to figure out what lightsyou up, and so I often will look
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to people's avocations, whatthey like to do, volunteering,
what they like to do in theirspare time, and then how do we
transition that into a vocationwhere they can make a living, or
at least a partial living?
You know, call on.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Chris, a cruise director.
What would that?
What would that make you?
What's my avocation?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, so Vegas, fast cars, fast boats, beach
mountains, women water, hotwater hot water definitely yeah,
I think and I'm thinking maybeI did miss my calling out.
I should have been.
I should have been on the loveboat.
I should have been a cruisedirector.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm the boat director I mean, look, ai is not going
to get us for a little bit.
We might all end up living to125.
I mean we've got to prepare.
We've got to prepare now.
Longevity is going to be athing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I wouldn't take the over on that one for me.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I mean honestly, I wouldn't take the over on it if
I was 50 on that one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
But I appreciate the ad.
Can I have some more bourbon?
You want bourbon or do you wantthe dark and stormy?
You're welcome.
And then the third piece of whatI'm doing now, because this is
really landing with Gen Xers whoare mid-career is a thing
called AI on ramp.
And so you know, I know a lotof people are anti-AI or don't
trust it.
What have you?
All I can tell you is this AIis a language, and if you aren't
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fluent with this language, youcould be fundamentally
unemployable by the end of thedecade, because it's just, it's
going to become ubiquitous.
It is going to be somethingthat you can, that maximizes
your skill and, for me,creativity.
Right, it's not quite Jarvis.
However, I can tell you, in thethree years that I've been
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using it on an almost dailybasis, it has vastly improved,
and, of course, we never thoughtit would take the creative jobs
we thought it was.
Oh, this is going to.
You know, do the nuts and boltsstuff.
It's going to be a while beforewe have plumbers and handy
people.
Right, we will probably getthere, but we got to worry about
, you know, 5 million truckdrivers being out of work, and
you know that's.
(31:13):
So.
Let's, let's, find a way tointerface with this device, play
with it at the level thatyou're comfortable with.
I've seen people who put theirdreams into it and it shows and
you can tell you like, hey,here's what's going on in your
life.
This is why you're dreamingthat.
That's what this stands for,too.
I wrote you know RickLaScorella's bio, uh, in.
(31:36):
I think it took about sevenseconds and it was awesome.
Right, all about the prompting,how, how carefully we can you
will use a page, two pages, toreally, you know, garbage in,
garbage out to get the rightthing.
And so I'm just trying to meetthe user where they are with AI
and then find ways that they canuse it in a safe manner.
What the company that Icontract for?
(31:57):
They've created a thing calledAstrid.
I not going to say any more,more than that, but it's
essentially a safe space whereyou put.
It's not connected.
It doesn't draw its source fromthe internet, right?
It only draws from its designdocument, and so you can put in
(32:20):
a let's call it a, you know ashrimp recipe and it will say
well, first of all you've got tobe worried about food safety,
and then you've got to worryabout food.
You know preparation, notcutting yourself.
Then you get, and it wasawesome.
I mean, this is something thatyou could use on a high powered
(32:42):
homeland security or emergencymanagement Exercise, and yet the
way it drew from its designdocument was to give you that
sort of safety approachAbsolutely failed.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh, so that's what you meant by safe place, not
like safe word.
Oh gosh, whoops.
Sorry, I just was wondering.
All right, you have to pull usthere, don't you?
I do?
All right, let's go back.
So, ai, I love that.
Everybody's talking about itthere, don't you I do?
All right, let's go back.
So, ai, I love everybody'stalking about it.
What is one thing that youwould do today that you didn't?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
do before AI that helps you in your biz or in
anything.
So the most important thingthat I've learned about AI is
have it ask you a series ofquestions about whatever topic
you're diving into, one at atime, informing the answer with
the next question.
So if I ask okay, this is my,the avatar of my client, ask me
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a question are they more likethis or more like that?
Okay, well, I need somebody whorecognizes that they're
probably.
You know that we have.
One of the key terms in mybusiness is overcome yourself.
It self-qualifies the client.
They recognize that they've gotto fundamentally change
(33:55):
themselves in order to get adifferent result.
If that doesn't land with you,or you don't like that, you're
probably not my client.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
But you use these prompting questions, uh, to help
identify what you should betalking about.
So use that a little moreself-reflect.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I'll tell you what I just.
I mean that is so different,cause I'm thinking okay, you use
AI to help create your avatar,but basically you're you're
having the AI help you createthe avatar the other way around.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Right, it's a little bit of both and I'll use I'll
use a parallel example.
So one of the things that cameup with this, that's exactly
where that first pain point ornot the first, I think it was
the third about that.
Are you somebody who saysyou're going to catch up this
weekend?
Three quarters of that came outof AI and it has amassed it
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from a, an amazing course I'm in.
It's called Visions to Ventures.
We meet every two weeks.
We'll meet this Friday andwe've been creating a whole
marketing package inside of my.
I call my, my AI is calledResonance inside of ChatGBT, and
so it has captured, you know,my business philosophy integrity
, discipline, execution and thenhas rolled a whole bunch of
(35:14):
avatar elements from my currentclients where I think I'm going.
And then I did something crazyto really answer your question.
I listened to three or fourYouTube videos.
I think it was Alan Watts.
I've always followed a Warner,earhart, landmark, landmark,
forum, carl Jung and I can'tremember who the, and and
(35:35):
Spinoza, and so I threw thosefour into the AI and it knows my
integrity, discipline,execution model and I said it
told me about all the alignment,where these things are aligned
from each right quote, you know,basically highlighting each,
each thinker.
And then I asked it one ofthese questions where what
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elements of each of thesethinkers have I not?
Is not currently in the list.
The summary that you've createdfor me, oh, ian, hold by boom,
right, so it's thinking and itgenerates all that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I love that one.
Ask me the question.
I haven't asked you that.
I should have asked you Ahundred percent.
That one has been prettypowerful for me in using AI to
help with some things.
That's been great, and younamed four people.
Did you know any one of thosefour people?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
No, Yep, I was there.
I was over there, well, andwhat's funny is that this is
exactly what I say to peoplewhen they're interviewing.
Your last question in aninterview from the career
counseling perspective, is whatquestion should I have asked you
?
And that really lets theinterviewer's guard down.
They're like that's a greatquestion.
(36:50):
Let me think about that.
They may not have anything.
I've had people say to me and myclients that question, that's
the question that tells me right, you're a high powered thinker,
you're about problem solving,you care about what I'm looking
for.
It really sets you apart, andso I swear by this process.
(37:11):
You know that I learned fromWarren McKee, who's the leader
of Visions, to Ventures and theway I work with this now.
So you know, I told you what Ihad already done these four
thinkers and then I said whatabout adding Gandhi, churchill,
john Maxwell, brene Brown?
I just listed off all thesegreat coaches and thinkers and
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it just laid the entire thingout.
Wow, and that's really, when youthink about it, I was a
translator between the red tapeof government and the bleeding
red ink of private sector.
I am clearly going to be atranslator between people who
don't want to have anything todo with AI and actually using it
.
And really here I want tocreate an on-ramp with my
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offering that, if you're a, ifyou're devoted to John Maxwell,
I will tell you about what itwas like to lead volunteers and
save the taxpayer half a milliondollars to $ 1.7 million
dollars I'm chewing checkersover here because I um, I used
to help me set my fantasyfootball draft exactly.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You did not, I did, why not?
And it was close.
It was a little a little, uh,benign, little kind of vanilla,
but it was, um, pretty good.
I'm like I'm drafting 10th inthe 12-person league.
This is the league format.
Look at that.
What do you think my firstthree options are going to be in
round one?
I love it, given that I takeoption one.
What do you think my comebackshould be in the second one?
(38:34):
And it was relatively close,except my draft never follows
any kind of logic because ourguys are all over the board.
But clearly, I'm doing it forfantasy football, you're doing
it for deep thinking.
I did.
I would say how I'd used it,though.
Uh, here's a practical examplefor a lot of home service people
.
I was in a house today.
She says I want to do my wholebasement.
(38:55):
Okay.
Now I said do you have a hopenumber?
And she said a number thatbasically wouldn't even get me,
uh, framing out a half a room.
And I was like, okay, so we'reway off.
And she went what I said let'sjust start cranking the numbers.
And I just put it all in thechat GPT.
I put all the dimensions inthere.
I said I want you to calculatethe drywall, the insulation, the
framing lumber and then give mean estimated price on that.
(39:17):
And I showed her that the pricealone from reputable sources,
the depots, the lows, themenards, they pulled from all
three.
And I said the price alone forthat lumber not even with me
marking this up, if you hadn'tbought everything is now twice
what you just said.
And she went oh my god, I'mlike yeah.
And I said I haven't evenstarted hitting them with a
hammer.
And I just showed her on thephone and she goes what are you
(39:38):
using?
I said chat GPT.
She goes so we with me justbeing in front of her, being
very transparent, showing herlook, it's not even me thinking,
this is me just using thisdevice in my hand just to show
you something.
And it changed the entireconversation.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
And I've heard multiple people doing this.
Right, they like hey, here arethree phases, Give me the
options.
Anyway, it's gone from being agenius five-year-old to a genius
eight, maybe 12-year-old.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, I agree, and it's always going to hallucinate
.
And yet, the more power thatyou can put into this, either
reducing options give me this orbe this person you'll get a
better result.
And the key is you've got tohave that human review.
You can't just copy and send,because you'll I'll always catch
(40:31):
something, I'll catch somethingthat's off, but it's ability to
synthesize that information andto have you know I was making
the joke.
One of the marketing pieces Imay use is I've studied
everything from Socrates toSpinoza, so that you don't have
to.
What I'm going to give you arethe nuggets, absolute golden
(40:51):
nuggets from their thinking,their way of being that alters
your entire life.
Right?
So the Socratic.
If I had to pick one Socraticmethod, if you are asking
questions, you're going to winthe day because you are
understanding the other person.
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (41:08):
by that Was that that there's gotta be more than one.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Now it was it was a little harsh for a Sandler
reverse.
This is how it would sound likein a Sandler world.
Yeah Gosh, ian, that's reallyinteresting.
What do you?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
RCA dog.
You go back and forth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Again, you got to be authentic,that's the biggest thing.
100%, yeah, that's the biggest.
So, very interesting.
So that's where you're kind ofevolving your business coaching.
But now let's get back topreparedness.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to sell myself as an
authenticity coach, and yetthat's really what I do.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
I think you coach and yet that's really what I do is,
I agree, I help people get intouch with the thing that lights
them up, uh, really reframing,like, what I love is when people
go.
Oh, you know what I actually dohave great, you know, work-life
balance.
I did.
You know I was able to do thisand and uh, one of my favorite
things that I tell people islook on, on Wednesday evenings,
I clean kitchens and bathrooms.
Ideally, on Friday evening orSaturday, I clean the rest of
the house and that way I canenjoy my environment for the
(42:09):
weekend.
And I'll never forget when Isaid that to a coaching client,
it altered his entire life.
Right, do these things at 10items a day.
You need a break.
You're tired of doing workquickly.
Go do something physical andand move the 10 things.
Organize 10 things at the endof that week.
Right, you've done 70operations and it doesn't feel
(42:32):
like you went, you know,head-to-head with a fire
extinguisher.
That didn't work, yeah, oh itworked.
No, the first one.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
No, the first one.
It went three seconds.
Oh right, I got you yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Working on my sound effects effects coming later
next soundboard, we'll get thesound effects.
All right, let's talk.
Let's get back to it, becausewe're gosh, we're oh my god,
it's already almost done withour uh episode.
Alan, we've got to talkpreparedness, so the
government's not here to help me.
What do I need to be doing?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
well, if you're a small business owner, let's make
sure you have all those thingsthat we talked about.
That's the three drives right,get ahead of your external drive
.
Make sure you can copy stuffthat's in the cloud.
Make sure you've got this.
Remember that good, good, pettycash, um, because that's the
thing that's going to make thedifference.
Don't expect.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Look at him, he's now , we had to speak his language,
though we had.
We had to make it real.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
I said TIP money.
He's like oh.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It used to be, once man it used to be.
I may have to steal the firstpart of that TIP money.
Right, If you're carrying TIPmoney, then I'm no longer a very
expensive banker.
And then really the key is anydocuments that you need to prove
your business or be able toreceive a grant or loan or what
have you.
Make sure you have that,Because that could mean the
(43:52):
difference between the life anddeath of your business in one of
these events.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
One other thing I would tell everybody is that if
you don't have a good insuranceagent, you need to have them and
you need to have continuousdialogue with them, because in
the event of like again, ifyou're leasing a space and it
goes up in flames, you'releasing a space and the power
goes down in the entire grid fortwo days.
Yep, um, you got to know what'sgoing on and you can call your
insurance agent and go hey, isthere any relief here?
(44:15):
In both cases, not the fire,but the grid uh, our grid went
down for two days.
Uh, he said there is.
Uh, how much of an impact was?
I said, said no, we were ableto go remote right away, so it
really wasn't a big deal.
So we didn't really loseanything other than food and
fridge.
And he was like is thatsomething you want to make a
claim on?
I'm like no, I don't think so.
I said the salad can wait.
(44:35):
I was listening.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
I appreciate the comeback here, matt.
That's great, yeah, and this isexactly when you have.
You know, just like you have tohandle your personal
preparedness.
You've got to handle that foryour people right.
You've got to have acommunication plan, even if it's
a text string.
You've got to know where we'regoing to rally in a disaster and
then how are you going tooutwardly communicate to your
(45:00):
clients and make sure everythingeverybody's feeling okay?
If you haven't't, you know,practiced this or workshop that,
call me in, I'd happily run youthrough a tabletop let me give
you one that just happened to us.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I didn't realize it.
I am not on Verizon, I'm onT-Mobile.
My general manager is onVerizon.
He was not responsive Saturdaynight and Sunday.
I just thought he happened.
He happened to be in themountains or doing whatever and
come to find out there was anoutage in Verizon in the Metro
Atlanta area.
So what would you do insomething like that?
(45:32):
I mean, let's just talk aboutthat, so I have an outage in one
carrier, maybe both carriers,or I don't know.
Tell me what I should tell my32 employees what to do if we
have an outage like that.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Smoke signals no, I'm kidding Always great.
They would have heard the firstword.
By the way, Smoke.
I know the, you know.
For over a decade I carried asecond phone on a different
network.
If you have revenue or if yourbusiness like, if that's serious
(46:04):
, you need to have that, or asat phone or some other way,
right, have a Starlink account,what have you?
So that's one thing.
I have used Facebook tocommunicate with people as a
matter of secondary resort,right.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Somebody's phone went down.
Do you think social media maybe the way, because that's
exactly how he found out that hewas down.
Yeah, he said he got a social.
He was looking on social mediaand said, oh man, it was right
there.
Uh, that's what happened to me.
And so he said, and he was likehe was just falling over.
So I apologize, I apologize,I'm like dude.
Well, how would you know?
Yeah, were they going to sendyou a note saying, oh, by the by
(46:44):
the way, your network's down.
They can't.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
So you have no idea.
Yeah, and in many cases you'vegot companies that have bought,
you know network on the mainnetwork, so they may be a
reseller right, and so itdoesn't matter if you're on X
company.
If the Verizon trunk is down,you're down, and that's critical
(47:07):
to know.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
All right, give me, give me some conspiracy theory
stuff, what again?
Speaker 3 (47:11):
we did go to the moon .
I want to be very clear aboutthis.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
You know, I do have one guy who absolutely said I
can't believe you bought intothat.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
I used to and I talked him off the flat earth
edge.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Okay, flat earth edge .
So, conspiracy theories though,we always think, you know, the
government's always listening,ai is always listening, things
are always listening.
Therefore, I'm not going to useit.
So how do you tell people thatyou've got to embrace it?
And oh, by the way, they'vebeen listening to you a lot
longer than you've ever thoughtthey were.
And basically, let's face it,you're that boring.
Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
Well, and legitimately right.
How do I respond to that?
Number one government is sobusy that it doesn't necessarily
have time and space to focus onyou.
This is one of the reasons thatmade me more comfortable with
AI, in that if I wanted learningfrom somebody, I wanted
learning from me.
I wanted learning my ethics.
I wanted being responsible.
(48:05):
It doesn't mean that it alwayswill be my ethics.
I want it being responsible.
It doesn't mean that it alwayswill be.
However, as an example, if allof us are that way right, we may
get a different result, I thinkgo ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Oh no, I was sorry adjusting.
I want to make sure somebodywasn't listening.
I was checking my implantsLooking for drones.
What no?
I didn't say that.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
What, what, no no, we're back, Okay, do we need to
have him committed or just lookdead?
I think you forgot to take apill this morning.
What pill See you always havemy back.
Make sure in your disaster kityou've got your prescriptions.
You can get to yourprescriptions.
Make sure you have it every day, or month.
(48:44):
I mean man, he's awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
I do need that.
That's actually another goodpoint.
It is a good point.
Yep, screw the water.
I need the drugs.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Well, I need water.
How else do you need?
Right, you need the water totake the drugs, right I?
Speaker 2 (48:55):
actually thought about it.
I mean, you're not that farfrom the Chattahoochee.
Do you have a way?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I do up in the mountains.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
I do, but not on me.
I did when I came before I havethe tourniquet today.
Oh Right, I also brought thered bag because I have to bring
you know, you need to be able toreconstitute the federal
government, which we can doright now and the green bag
money bag.
I forgot about the bag.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Oh, my God, that's right.
I love that you brought thetourniquet.
That's good.
Can we practice on Alan?
Alan, get your leg up here.
Wow, no, it's not for long.
All right, so let's.
For the listeners maybe whodidn't listen to that, let's
explain the bag andreconstituting.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
So, very quickly, I carry a red bag that's got four
copies of the Constitution.
Obviously, Article I is thejudiciary.
You have two houses.
You need two copies of theconstitution for the house and
the Senate.
They must be in the same citybecause they have to conference
as they write laws.
The executive branch, articletwo can be somewhere else.
(49:58):
Judiciary article three can besomewhere else as well, but
you've got to have thelegislative branch together to
create laws and from that, if wehave a pencil and writing paper
, we can reconstitute thegovernment and as we did last
time uh, I was the legislature,the man was land of.
Chris was number two, wasnumber two the executive branch.
(50:21):
And what I loved is Alan's overhere and he's he's reading and
he's like come on, man, we're inthe podcast, like no, no, no,
he's actually studying the laws.
He did, we did loop that one onthat one.
He keeps us in check, right,which is vital.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Riveting podcast when one of the hosts just starts
reading and not engaging at all.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Oh, but then he busted.
Like you know, it's even betterthan in terms so plain as to
command their ascent.
I'm not going to repeat thequote.
You actually have to go backand listen to the podcast
because Alan kills it at that.
It was awesome.
I don't remember that at all.
Of course we're listening toagain.
(51:00):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Really.
I mean, the planet has tocollapse.
You survive.
You've got the red bag.
We can put it back together.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Yeah, I mean, even if it's just, you know the
Southeast survives, right,Region 4 backs up Washington DC
and you know we have to look atour current political
environment.
We have a leader that's talkedabout putting nuclear devices in
the field, right, we had anattack at the CDC.
It's game, I mean, it's a job Imeant to say that at the outset
like it's more gamey and evenmore jungly, uh, than it was
(51:32):
when, when I was here a year ago.
So we got to take care of thisgamey and jungly, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Gamey and jungly?
That's the, that's our podcast,the small business safari.
And we're coming to the end,ian, you did it again.
Man, this has been Gold NuggetCity.
You learned a lot, not onlyabout, maybe, your personal
growth.
Maybe you like a salad, maybeyou don't.
Maybe you like to clean yourtoilets, Maybe you don't.
Don't invite me over, by theway.
Very gaggy Can't handle that.
So, yeah, oh God, no Badtoilets Got to go.
(52:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
I can do it.
I actually do it at our house.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
That's my job.
You clean the toilets.
I'm so proud of you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I don't have to do laundry, but I do toilets.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Oh, it works and oddly enough you can do both in
a Lowe's Home Depot bucket, solong as you have those detergent
strips that you can drop in andhave the toilet seat that fits
over the bucket.
I'm here to help.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
He's always here to help everybody.
Ian A Ian.
How can everybody get ahold ofyou, man?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Let's put that out there again, yeah, so if you
want to reach me, please call meon 770-293-8870.
Again, that's Ian A770-293-8870.
And here live.
If you go tolickitysplitdisasterkitcom
(52:55):
that'slickitysplitdisasterkitcom
you'll be able to add an email,you'll get a quick worksheet and
I'm going to create a specialfor the adventure team.
We'll give you a discount.
I have a 30 minute video thatgoes through my entire disaster
kit and we'll make sure there'sa special for your listeners.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Love it.
All right, guys, go out there.
Lickety split, disaster, kitcom.
All right, we got to do thiseverybody.
Hey, go make it a big day,let's go make it a great week.
Hey, go make it a big day,let's go make it a great week.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Alexander the great said I have no idea.
So, uh, I was like I'm going tobe really impressed right now.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
No, and I'm not no, you shouldn't be, but we got to
make it better.
Keep going, keep driving, keepdigging.
Sometimes it doesn't feel good,sometimes you're down in the
dirt, sometimes you're down inthat tunnel.
You just got to feel bad andyou got to get out.
You got to get running, you gotto get up.
You got to make it happen.
Let's keep it going.
Everybody, make it a great week.
We'll talk to you next week.
Cheers, everybody, cheers.
(53:56):
Thank you for listening to thisepisode of the small business
safari.
Remember your positive attitudewill help you achieve that
higher altitude.
You're looking for a wild world, small business ownership.
And until next time, make it agreat day.
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