April 17, 2025 • 23 mins
Welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate—the podcast where innovation meets inspiration, and every episode feels like a fun, engaging chat with friends. Your hosts, Jim Riley and Rod Kuntz, are not just seasoned entrepreneurs; they’re expert storytellers with real-world experience in coaching, consulting, start-ups, fundraising, and crafting vibrant workplace cultures. Jim and Rod keep it real, sharing lessons learned from the trenches with humility, humor, and a focus on paying success forward. Every episode is packed with relatable stories, actionable advice, and a good dose of fun that’ll make you feel like you’re right there in the room. Whether you’re scaling your business, optimizing for profitability, or navigating failure, Jim and Rod have your back. So, if you’re ready to learn, laugh, and level up, you’ve found your tribe. Welcome to Young Entrepreneur Syndicate with Jim Riley and Rod Kuntz—where you’re not just listening, you’re part of the conversation! Find out more at: https://www.youngentrepreneursyndicate.com/
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-answer-is-yes--2903418/support.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-answer-is-yes--2903418/support.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some of the most
interesting people that have said yes to opportunities in their life.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We hope that through these stories.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You can learn to create your own destiny by saying yes.
Along the way, join us as we explored the new series,
governing topics such as passion, integrity, and art work. I'm
your host, Jim Riley, and I hope you enjoyed these
interviews as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I believe that everyone has an important message work here on.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hello and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. Jim Riley
here with Rod Kontz.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hey buddy, Good morning, Jim Riley. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm doing fantastic. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got up early, got my reading in study for
my faith based weekend, did some coaching calls, got to
work out, and I'm just you know, when you have
a plan, it works.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know you have a plan every morning, right, you
stick to.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Your plan every morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Get up, You've got.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Your home routine, you got your video on your way
to work, you know your work out Like planning helps
a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It does. And I have to say too, you know,
I just I just finished seventy five hard, yeah, and
I don't read as much now, and I don't work
out as faithfully. I mean, it's just it's crazy. It's
like when you when you have a plan and you
you just commit to it, it does something, it really does.
(01:33):
It's just be more committed. Could I could I do more?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Absolutely, And and yet it's easier to not and find
something else to fill that time. And it's not like
I'm not productive, but it's different when you don't have
that plan to push against.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I think it's amazing how fast your time can get
sucked up in the minutia of life or other things
when you divert away from your plan. I mean, seventy
five hard develop some habits in you, you succeeded, and
like you said, you've already dropped off some of those
habits now. Granted, I probably wouldn't stick to two a
day workouts a day, you know, one is more than enough,
(02:12):
maybe the gawn of water, but the reading seems important.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
To try to stick to some of those things.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It blows me away. How many people do you know
that are retired that don't have any time to do
anything because they're so busy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Most of them, most of them, most of them. What like,
when did you have time for a full time job?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I ask myself that every day. I just I don't
know it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Just there is so much to get done and so
little time to get it done in Yeah, And if
you look at that, it's not just in a day,
extrapolate that out over a lifetime. There is so much
for each one of us to get done while we're
here on earth, and we better start packing it in.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, there's a lot to do, start enjoying that life. Well,
we've been talking a little bit about your your morning plans,
my morning plans, which are important, and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Going to lead into the topic.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But speaking of plans, I want to just highlight a
couple of people that are in our lives to a
degree in mine as well. And those people are Heidi Rendina.
She is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. She
is a physical fitness trainer. Taylor Wiggers is actually a
private client of mine who's also a physical fitness trainer.
(03:30):
Oddly enough, she trained under Heidi and now she's got
her own business in a different town than Heidi and thriving.
And then finally Brad Dunn who has been on the
Young Entrepreneur Syndicate coaching calls. He's my personal training coach.
And the reason why I want to bring these three
individuals up right now and just highlight it for a second,
(03:51):
because I want to put a little bug in everybody's
ear that's listening how important your own physical fitness and
well being is to your life. And these are three
great coaches doing wonderful things for people that we take
our health for granted. You know, right, you had some
health issues last year, and I know you don't take
(04:12):
your health for granted, but you just never know the
curveballs that life's going to throw at you. And I'm
a huge believer in the healthier that we are physically
and mentally, the stronger we are to combat the challenges
and struggles of life.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Absolutely, And you know, it's easier to deal with an injury,
I think, and a major health issue. Sure, and not
saying an injury is not a major health issue. It
can be, but an injury is something it's there and
you take immediate action and then you go through the
healing process. Right. But health issues, chronic health issues are
(04:52):
a different thing altogether because it's chronic, right, it's there
all the time, and we have to I guess it
comes down to safety. What are we doing? You know,
we we wear hard hats, we wear gloves, we wear
steel toed boots on jobs right to ward off accidents
and injuries. But what are we doing to ward off
(05:15):
long term chronic health injuries? It's just safety issue. It
really is what are we doing to ward that stuff off?
Wise choices, informed choices, And that's what you know. I'm
not reading as much as I was, but I still
have several books that are ongoing. Sure, but I'm sidetracking
(05:37):
off on these other ventures with health, and it's I
want to know more and the science is not settled.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The science is not settled.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And the more I look into it, the more I
realize that it's it's not been settled for a long time,
but there has been a narrative out there, and so
it's up to us. I mean, we really have to
take our health into our own hands, because no one
else can do it for you.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No one else can drink that three quarts of water
gallon of water a day.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No one can do that for you. No one can
make the healthy meals, the healthy choices. No one can
do the exercise for you. You have to do it.
It really is personal commitment. I don't know, getting off
track of you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, it's okay, But I love your comparison. You know,
you got a construction job and you wear a heart hat.
I bet these days every single person that gets in
the car puts on their seatbelt, right for what reason?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
For safety? Right? You wear hard toe boots for safety
on the job.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You might wear cowboy boots, you know, or high ankle
boots if you're going hiking to avoid you know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Snak by whatever. We all do these little things for safety.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But you know where we always miss it as a
society is in what we eat and consume, in our
lack of physical fitness.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
As you said, it's like a safety perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So anyways, I wanted to highlight those people because they're
providing great resources in health and fitness. I've worked with
all three of them and I think they're fantastic. So anyways,
that just a little highlight there, Okay, And so hey,
you could take your planning that we originally talked about
for a minute into some health into my topic for
(07:24):
the day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And the topic for the day is well, I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You, Rachel love this a lot more than maybe you.
But I don't know, maybe you might love it too.
My topic is vision boards vision boards, and the reason
why that's the topic is I had a coaching call
this morning, great client, lover to death. She created a
vision board and she did a fantastic job, right, And
it's one of the exercises that I have my private
(07:49):
clients do because I really want them to see what.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Their future looks like for them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And if you're not familiar with vision boards, this is
probably in the eighties and nineties, early two thousands as
a marketing tactic to get a good visual perspective of
what your business might look like or what it could be,
you know, and so you write out all these things
that you envision for your company. But the fun exercises,
and this is what I'm referring to, is back in
(08:16):
the day, we used to get all the magazines and
cut out pictures that resonated with us, and then we
would stick it on to a big board, you know,
big bulletin board, and then you can see visually.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Like, oh, there's what our future looks like. That's what
our brand looks like.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Why my clients do that because I want them to
be able to visualize through pictures what their lives could
be like if they think big. And one thing that
I've found in this exercise is that people don't think
big often enough. They don't think big often enough. And
so what I the intent of bringing this topic up
(08:51):
is maybe you've thought about your long term goals. Maybe
you've even done a little vision boarding. But if you have,
or if you have not, I'd like you to create
a vision board that thinks bigger than most are, bigger
than what you might expect to think. You know, what
does that look like?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay? And so my client.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
She had put a house on her vision board, which
is a great what a great goal to have, I said,
I love that you have that on there, but I
want you to know something, based on the work that
we've been doing over a period of time, that house
is almost within reach, literally with a couple months of focus,
through the new tools that I've acquired, through an understanding, mortgage, lending,
(09:35):
all these other things, that house is closer than you think.
It's probably less than a year away. So although it
might have a place on your vision board, it shouldn't
consume like twenty five percent of it, right, You.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Know what I mean? What should consume.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Twenty five percent of that is like long term, you
and your husband and your kids on a beach are
doing something or serving or whatever that might look like
much larger than that. That's almost obtainable right now, right,
And so I want to dare people to dream big
and to have big visions for themselves. And I'll turn
(10:10):
it over to you here in a second. I started
a company in twenty seventeen. It was an import company.
We imported beer and wine from Baja Mexico. And the
reason why we picked that is that I had already
been giving since the mid eighties to orphanages in Baja
And you know my story, Rod, But if you don't
know my story, I've been racing and surfing in Baja
(10:31):
Mexico since the early eighties and part of all those
trips we usually stop and donate something to the orphanages.
And I thought, hey, if we start this company, we
can give back a sustainable amount of money on a
regular basis to the orphanages. So it wasn't just when
we sporadically were down there for an activity. And I
told my business coach at the time David Meltzer. I said, Hey,
(10:52):
I want to donate one hundred thousand dollars to these
orphanages and the next year. And he looks at me
like I'll be fuddled. I'm like what, Dave? And he goes,
why would you limit yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Like, what do you mean? That's a lot of money?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Goes Yeah, but why would you limit yourself? Why not
just say you want to be the largest donor to
the orphanages in Baha and not put a number to it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You're capable of more.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And that's stuck with me for a long time, you know,
And so when I think about my visions and my goals,
I think about it in those terms like I don't
want to limit myself. So what are your thoughts on
vision boards?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What have you done? What would you advise? Well?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I was actually chuckling to myself because I was thinking
back to when I was a teenager and even modern teenagers.
I have one in my house now, and they put
posters on their wall, you know, yep, I had. I
had some friends in high school their parents allowed them
to have pin up girl posts. You talk about a
(11:52):
vision board, right, It's one of those things that what
we look at and focus on does motivate us? And
sometimes we look at it as I think sometimes it's
escapism for people. But I think how you approach it
can be different. I mean a vision board you have
to go in with the mindset that, yeah, this is
(12:15):
a goal, it's not just something to you know, how
many times do you talk to someone on the street, Hey,
how's it going. I'm living the dream And what they're
saying is I'm going to the salt mine, I'm going
to the job I hate again, you know, And they.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Say I'm living the dream.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well are you yeah? Are you really?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What what is the vision? You have to have that vision?
And you know, I my wife was better about vision boards.
And I don't want to say I was skeptical about it.
It's I'm not tactically an art artfully talented. It's not
(12:55):
one of my gifts to and and now that there
are no magazines and stuff, I'd be doing a lot
of color printing on the printer.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And so I talk to myself out of it.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
But you know, I'm I'm an intellectual. I do I
do visualize. I daydream, I see things in my mind's
eye and and if that's if there are other people
out there listening to this that are more like me.
I put it in writing, and what I write, I
can visualize, you know, I know pictures worth you know,
(13:23):
a thousand words.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But yeah, I'm a writer.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I I process information differently, so but have a vision.
I think this is the the important thing that you're
bringing up, Jim, is people need to have a vision.
And then your your secondary point is it needs to
be bigger. It needs to be bigger. In fact, a
couple of well maybe it was a month ago, we
had a call and you challenged everyone on that call
(13:48):
to you know, have your plan, have your goals for
the year. And I came back out and I said,
double it. Yeah, now, Jim, Jim gave you an assignment
and I'm telling you to double it. And we had
one of our members who came back the next week
and said, it's amazing because he came back, you know,
to work and his corporation that he works with, doubled it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Wow, that is so amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We just have to we have to be on that page.
To be on the same page means you have to
have a page. And so if if you don't have
a vision board or a page. I highly encourage you
to do that because it gives you a focal point.
Without a focal point, you're aimless.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'm going to give a crazy vision board story that
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Even know I was doing it to myself.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But this is how impactful vision boards are and the
ability to visualize, you know, in pictures, what you want,
what your goals are in life. Right, and you know,
it's really cool these days, Rod they have Canva. I
think maybe you've used. Canva allows you to put together
(15:02):
a vision board by pulling images not only from their library,
but your own library and or what you find on
the internet, and you can have an electronic version of
a vision board. You could easily print that and then
put it at your desk or you know, in your bathroom,
on the mirror wherever you like to look at these things.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
This is wild. I don't even know if I told
you this.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, So years ago, seven years ago, I had a client.
His name was Andy Bardone. Andy, Hello, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
He is was a.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Professional photographer for National Geographic, one of the top guys,
and he came to me to help him consult on
his tequila business that he was starting, and we just
had a beautiful relationship. And there was a point when
the work was officially done, you know, the monetary value
exchange was done. But I told Andy said, I'm here
for you if you ever need me. So we had
(15:52):
a series of calls after that official ending, and he
was so grateful. He's like, Jim, I just want to
pay you. You know, what can I do for it?
I said, hey, I love these photos that you have.
You know, if you want to send one to me,
I'll take a photo.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Right. Well, he three uped that. He sent me.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Three of his prints, absolutely the most gorgeous prints you've
ever seen of horsemanship, cowboys planes. He's in Jackson, ho Wyoming.
So you can imagine the backdrop, right. I'm going to
post it on my Instagram after this it goes live
(16:29):
so that you can see the picture that I'm talking
about here. One of them is a cowboy in a
grassy filled with some clouds in the background. He's in
a weather all weather jacket, you know, one of those
three quarterlink leather jackets, and he's walking a paint horse
across the grass, right, and he's looking down. It's just
(16:49):
an epic picture. It is directly across from me where
I sit. Okay, I look at it every single day.
And the reason why.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He picked that because he's got all kinds of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
He's got mountains, surfers, tropics, etc. I just said, I
love these western photos that you did.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
He sent me three. This one sits in my office.
Fast forward a couple of years. I've been looking at
this thing for a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
A friend who was a horse trainer that was also
giving my daughter's lessons. She says, hey, I know you
guys are looking for another horse. My mom's got one.
Do you want to come out and you know, possibly
buy it or lease it or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And we're like, yeah, sure, we'll go check it out.
We go to her place.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Instantly I was in love with this horse, absolutely instantly,
and we're like, yeah, we'll give it a try, right,
So we load the horse up, bring it to our house,
and we had it here for a couple of weeks
and I just would stare out the window at this
horse and be like, man, that horse is so amazing, right,
and just you know, as part of our family. Almost overnight,
(18:00):
and one day I'm sitting at my desk looking out
at this horse, and I look up and I look
at that paint in the picture.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Let me tell you, those two horses were.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Almost identical to one another. And I went, holy shit.
I manifested this horse in my pasture because of looking
at that picture every single day. That's the power of
vision boards and manifesting your dreams and what you want
in life. So I'll actually be careful for what you wish. Right,
(18:34):
the picture represented something different to me. The horse itself
wasn't a good fit for the family. We wound up
giving it back to the mom. It was a little
bit more advanced for the kids than what we could
use at the time. But the realization of going, wow,
I've been looking at this picture every day and there
it is in my pasture.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Right, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So be careful what.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Your vision board is because you will achieve it if
you really mean it, and it is there on the
forefront of your mind. So anyways, it's a great powerful too,
And I want to tool and I want to encourage
everybody to consider creating their own vision board.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And I'm gonna I'm gonna segue I'm going to take
a hard right turn and I want you to hang
with me out there. People.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm a praying person.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm a man of faith, and we.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
We pray in our family.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We pray.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I've been around people who are much bigger, better prayers,
stronger faith.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Call it whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I always feel like I'm I'm lacking in that regard,
but I press in. And one thing I learned over
the years is is pray right, pray for.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What you want.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
That's that's part of your vision board vision board praying.
I don't I don't necessarily just call it manifestation. I
believe it's praying asking for what you want. But to
your point, the people that I know that are really
strong prayers always told me they say, pray specifically. You
need to ask for exactly what you want. If you
(20:05):
expect an answer, then what is that answer that you want?
The whole answer? And in your case with the horse,
if you were praying for that horse, you would also
have prayed if you were praying specifically for a horse
that was also going to be good with your children.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, that wasn't too advanced.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
So you know, sometimes we you know, we ask a
miss we don't know what to ask or we ask
a miss So pray specifically. If you're building your vision board,
build it specific to what you want. If it's a
new house, don't just have it any house. If it's
a log cabin that you really want, make that vision
board the log cabin. If you want it on a
(20:45):
lake or a body of water, put it in your
body of water. Pray specifically because you know what your
prayers will be answered. You know your visions will be realized,
So make them specific. You know I need a new
car a car?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Do you want?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
An importer?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Do?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Do you want a new Chevy?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Okay? How new? What color? What engine do you want?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
What trim level do you want?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I mean, seriously, dive in and go deep because you're
if you're going to get what you what you deserve, right, well,
regard of what you deserve is what you ask for.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'm giving a leadership speech this weekend at this Christian retreat,
and we talked just about that. You know how how
God's worked in my life through my prayers and through
my being very specific about my desires for my family,
right and where we want to go with this and
and so you're right, Rob, be careful what you pray for.
You might have a horse in your pastor that's not
(21:44):
a good fit, you know. But I love this exercise
and I want to.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Encourage people to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
We'll wrap up on that thought because this is this
is an important component to achieving your goals and and
finding that happiness. And don't leave anything off that board either,
because as Rod just proved, you know, God is a
He's a big guy and he will provide at all levels.
And you know what, if you don't believe in God,
(22:10):
give him a shot.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
See what he see what he delivers. Let's just say
that better watch out.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So yeah, yeah, test me, go ahead do it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Speaking of that, we are doing the Montana Camp May
twenty first, twenty second, twenty third here in Kellispell at
the College. Going to be a great event. It's his
fifth year in the running and the topics are faith, family, fitness,
and finance. So if any of those appeal to you, come.
I interviewed mister thank you, it's gonna be one of
(22:43):
our guests. He's on on this podcast channel Who's the show?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Before this?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
One incredible story. I would come just to hear him
speak live because I love his story. I'm gonna leave
it at that, So you listen to the episode, but
Rod and I will both be speaking there with Rachel
Is along with the many others.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So join us.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Montana Camp dot org will get you tickets, and hey,
if you like.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This show, share it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Want to be a part of our community Young Entrepreneur
Syndicate dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We'd love to have you Rod, always good to.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
See you you too, my friend. Yeah, and have a
great weekend at Trace.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We'll do We'll do, man, all right, great having you
beautiful
Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some of the most
interesting people that have said yes to opportunities in their life.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We hope that through these stories.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You can learn to create your own destiny by saying yes.
Along the way, join us as we explored the new series,
governing topics such as passion, integrity, and art work. I'm
your host, Jim Riley, and I hope you enjoyed these
interviews as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I believe that everyone has an important message work here on.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hello and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. Jim Riley
here with Rod Kontz.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hey buddy, Good morning, Jim Riley. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm doing fantastic. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got up early, got my reading in study for
my faith based weekend, did some coaching calls, got to
work out, and I'm just you know, when you have
a plan, it works.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know you have a plan every morning, right, you
stick to.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Your plan every morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Get up, You've got.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Your home routine, you got your video on your way
to work, you know your work out Like planning helps
a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It does. And I have to say too, you know,
I just I just finished seventy five hard, yeah, and
I don't read as much now, and I don't work
out as faithfully. I mean, it's just it's crazy. It's
like when you when you have a plan and you
you just commit to it, it does something, it really does.
(01:33):
It's just be more committed. Could I could I do more?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Absolutely, And and yet it's easier to not and find
something else to fill that time. And it's not like
I'm not productive, but it's different when you don't have
that plan to push against.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I think it's amazing how fast your time can get
sucked up in the minutia of life or other things
when you divert away from your plan. I mean, seventy
five hard develop some habits in you, you succeeded, and
like you said, you've already dropped off some of those
habits now. Granted, I probably wouldn't stick to two a
day workouts a day, you know, one is more than enough,
(02:12):
maybe the gawn of water, but the reading seems important.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
To try to stick to some of those things.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It blows me away. How many people do you know
that are retired that don't have any time to do
anything because they're so busy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Most of them, most of them, most of them. What like,
when did you have time for a full time job?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I ask myself that every day. I just I don't
know it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Just there is so much to get done and so
little time to get it done in Yeah, And if
you look at that, it's not just in a day,
extrapolate that out over a lifetime. There is so much
for each one of us to get done while we're
here on earth, and we better start packing it in.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, there's a lot to do, start enjoying that life. Well,
we've been talking a little bit about your your morning plans,
my morning plans, which are important, and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Going to lead into the topic.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But speaking of plans, I want to just highlight a
couple of people that are in our lives to a
degree in mine as well. And those people are Heidi Rendina.
She is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. She
is a physical fitness trainer. Taylor Wiggers is actually a
private client of mine who's also a physical fitness trainer.
(03:30):
Oddly enough, she trained under Heidi and now she's got
her own business in a different town than Heidi and thriving.
And then finally Brad Dunn who has been on the
Young Entrepreneur Syndicate coaching calls. He's my personal training coach.
And the reason why I want to bring these three
individuals up right now and just highlight it for a second,
(03:51):
because I want to put a little bug in everybody's
ear that's listening how important your own physical fitness and
well being is to your life. And these are three
great coaches doing wonderful things for people that we take
our health for granted. You know, right, you had some
health issues last year, and I know you don't take
(04:12):
your health for granted, but you just never know the
curveballs that life's going to throw at you. And I'm
a huge believer in the healthier that we are physically
and mentally, the stronger we are to combat the challenges
and struggles of life.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Absolutely, And you know, it's easier to deal with an injury,
I think, and a major health issue. Sure, and not
saying an injury is not a major health issue. It
can be, but an injury is something it's there and
you take immediate action and then you go through the
healing process. Right. But health issues, chronic health issues are
(04:52):
a different thing altogether because it's chronic, right, it's there
all the time, and we have to I guess it
comes down to safety. What are we doing? You know,
we we wear hard hats, we wear gloves, we wear
steel toed boots on jobs right to ward off accidents
and injuries. But what are we doing to ward off
(05:15):
long term chronic health injuries? It's just safety issue. It
really is what are we doing to ward that stuff off?
Wise choices, informed choices, And that's what you know. I'm
not reading as much as I was, but I still
have several books that are ongoing. Sure, but I'm sidetracking
(05:37):
off on these other ventures with health, and it's I
want to know more and the science is not settled.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The science is not settled.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
And the more I look into it, the more I
realize that it's it's not been settled for a long time,
but there has been a narrative out there, and so
it's up to us. I mean, we really have to
take our health into our own hands, because no one
else can do it for you.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No one else can drink that three quarts of water
gallon of water a day.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No one can do that for you. No one can
make the healthy meals, the healthy choices. No one can
do the exercise for you. You have to do it.
It really is personal commitment. I don't know, getting off
track of you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, it's okay, But I love your comparison. You know,
you got a construction job and you wear a heart hat.
I bet these days every single person that gets in
the car puts on their seatbelt, right for what reason?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
For safety? Right? You wear hard toe boots for safety
on the job.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You might wear cowboy boots, you know, or high ankle
boots if you're going hiking to avoid you know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Snak by whatever. We all do these little things for safety.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But you know where we always miss it as a
society is in what we eat and consume, in our
lack of physical fitness.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
As you said, it's like a safety perspective.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So anyways, I wanted to highlight those people because they're
providing great resources in health and fitness. I've worked with
all three of them and I think they're fantastic. So anyways,
that just a little highlight there, Okay, And so hey,
you could take your planning that we originally talked about
for a minute into some health into my topic for
(07:24):
the day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And the topic for the day is well, I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You, Rachel love this a lot more than maybe you.
But I don't know, maybe you might love it too.
My topic is vision boards vision boards, and the reason
why that's the topic is I had a coaching call
this morning, great client, lover to death. She created a
vision board and she did a fantastic job, right, And
it's one of the exercises that I have my private
(07:49):
clients do because I really want them to see what.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Their future looks like for them.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And if you're not familiar with vision boards, this is
probably in the eighties and nineties, early two thousands as
a marketing tactic to get a good visual perspective of
what your business might look like or what it could be,
you know, and so you write out all these things
that you envision for your company. But the fun exercises,
and this is what I'm referring to, is back in
(08:16):
the day, we used to get all the magazines and
cut out pictures that resonated with us, and then we
would stick it on to a big board, you know,
big bulletin board, and then you can see visually.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Like, oh, there's what our future looks like. That's what
our brand looks like.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Why my clients do that because I want them to
be able to visualize through pictures what their lives could
be like if they think big. And one thing that
I've found in this exercise is that people don't think
big often enough. They don't think big often enough. And
so what I the intent of bringing this topic up
(08:51):
is maybe you've thought about your long term goals. Maybe
you've even done a little vision boarding. But if you have,
or if you have not, I'd like you to create
a vision board that thinks bigger than most are, bigger
than what you might expect to think. You know, what
does that look like?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay? And so my client.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
She had put a house on her vision board, which
is a great what a great goal to have, I said,
I love that you have that on there, but I
want you to know something, based on the work that
we've been doing over a period of time, that house
is almost within reach, literally with a couple months of focus,
through the new tools that I've acquired, through an understanding, mortgage, lending,
(09:35):
all these other things, that house is closer than you think.
It's probably less than a year away. So although it
might have a place on your vision board, it shouldn't
consume like twenty five percent of it, right, You.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Know what I mean? What should consume.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Twenty five percent of that is like long term, you
and your husband and your kids on a beach are
doing something or serving or whatever that might look like
much larger than that. That's almost obtainable right now, right,
And so I want to dare people to dream big
and to have big visions for themselves. And I'll turn
(10:10):
it over to you here in a second. I started
a company in twenty seventeen. It was an import company.
We imported beer and wine from Baja Mexico. And the
reason why we picked that is that I had already
been giving since the mid eighties to orphanages in Baja
And you know my story, Rod, But if you don't
know my story, I've been racing and surfing in Baja
(10:31):
Mexico since the early eighties and part of all those
trips we usually stop and donate something to the orphanages.
And I thought, hey, if we start this company, we
can give back a sustainable amount of money on a
regular basis to the orphanages. So it wasn't just when
we sporadically were down there for an activity. And I
told my business coach at the time David Meltzer. I said, Hey,
(10:52):
I want to donate one hundred thousand dollars to these
orphanages and the next year. And he looks at me
like I'll be fuddled. I'm like what, Dave? And he goes,
why would you limit yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Like, what do you mean? That's a lot of money?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Goes Yeah, but why would you limit yourself? Why not
just say you want to be the largest donor to
the orphanages in Baha and not put a number to it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You're capable of more.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And that's stuck with me for a long time, you know,
And so when I think about my visions and my goals,
I think about it in those terms like I don't
want to limit myself. So what are your thoughts on
vision boards?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What have you done? What would you advise? Well?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I was actually chuckling to myself because I was thinking
back to when I was a teenager and even modern teenagers.
I have one in my house now, and they put
posters on their wall, you know, yep, I had. I
had some friends in high school their parents allowed them
to have pin up girl posts. You talk about a
(11:52):
vision board, right, It's one of those things that what
we look at and focus on does motivate us? And
sometimes we look at it as I think sometimes it's
escapism for people. But I think how you approach it
can be different. I mean a vision board you have
to go in with the mindset that, yeah, this is
(12:15):
a goal, it's not just something to you know, how
many times do you talk to someone on the street, Hey,
how's it going. I'm living the dream And what they're
saying is I'm going to the salt mine, I'm going
to the job I hate again, you know, And they.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Say I'm living the dream.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well are you yeah? Are you really?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What what is the vision? You have to have that vision?
And you know, I my wife was better about vision boards.
And I don't want to say I was skeptical about it.
It's I'm not tactically an art artfully talented. It's not
(12:55):
one of my gifts to and and now that there
are no magazines and stuff, I'd be doing a lot
of color printing on the printer.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And so I talk to myself out of it.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
But you know, I'm I'm an intellectual. I do I
do visualize. I daydream, I see things in my mind's
eye and and if that's if there are other people
out there listening to this that are more like me.
I put it in writing, and what I write, I
can visualize, you know, I know pictures worth you know,
(13:23):
a thousand words.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But yeah, I'm a writer.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I I process information differently, so but have a vision.
I think this is the the important thing that you're
bringing up, Jim, is people need to have a vision.
And then your your secondary point is it needs to
be bigger. It needs to be bigger. In fact, a
couple of well maybe it was a month ago, we
had a call and you challenged everyone on that call
(13:48):
to you know, have your plan, have your goals for
the year. And I came back out and I said,
double it. Yeah, now, Jim, Jim gave you an assignment
and I'm telling you to double it. And we had
one of our members who came back the next week
and said, it's amazing because he came back, you know,
to work and his corporation that he works with, doubled it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Wow, that is so amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We just have to we have to be on that page.
To be on the same page means you have to
have a page. And so if if you don't have
a vision board or a page. I highly encourage you
to do that because it gives you a focal point.
Without a focal point, you're aimless.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'm going to give a crazy vision board story that
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Even know I was doing it to myself.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But this is how impactful vision boards are and the
ability to visualize, you know, in pictures, what you want,
what your goals are in life. Right, and you know,
it's really cool these days, Rod they have Canva. I
think maybe you've used. Canva allows you to put together
(15:02):
a vision board by pulling images not only from their library,
but your own library and or what you find on
the internet, and you can have an electronic version of
a vision board. You could easily print that and then
put it at your desk or you know, in your bathroom,
on the mirror wherever you like to look at these things.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
This is wild. I don't even know if I told
you this.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, So years ago, seven years ago, I had a client.
His name was Andy Bardone. Andy, Hello, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
He is was a.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Professional photographer for National Geographic, one of the top guys,
and he came to me to help him consult on
his tequila business that he was starting, and we just
had a beautiful relationship. And there was a point when
the work was officially done, you know, the monetary value
exchange was done. But I told Andy said, I'm here
for you if you ever need me. So we had
(15:52):
a series of calls after that official ending, and he
was so grateful. He's like, Jim, I just want to
pay you. You know, what can I do for it?
I said, hey, I love these photos that you have.
You know, if you want to send one to me,
I'll take a photo.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Right. Well, he three uped that. He sent me.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Three of his prints, absolutely the most gorgeous prints you've
ever seen of horsemanship, cowboys planes. He's in Jackson, ho Wyoming.
So you can imagine the backdrop, right. I'm going to
post it on my Instagram after this it goes live
(16:29):
so that you can see the picture that I'm talking
about here. One of them is a cowboy in a
grassy filled with some clouds in the background. He's in
a weather all weather jacket, you know, one of those
three quarterlink leather jackets, and he's walking a paint horse
across the grass, right, and he's looking down. It's just
(16:49):
an epic picture. It is directly across from me where
I sit. Okay, I look at it every single day.
And the reason why.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
He picked that because he's got all kinds of cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
He's got mountains, surfers, tropics, etc. I just said, I
love these western photos that you did.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
He sent me three. This one sits in my office.
Fast forward a couple of years. I've been looking at
this thing for a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
A friend who was a horse trainer that was also
giving my daughter's lessons. She says, hey, I know you
guys are looking for another horse. My mom's got one.
Do you want to come out and you know, possibly
buy it or lease it or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And we're like, yeah, sure, we'll go check it out.
We go to her place.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Instantly I was in love with this horse, absolutely instantly,
and we're like, yeah, we'll give it a try, right,
So we load the horse up, bring it to our house,
and we had it here for a couple of weeks
and I just would stare out the window at this
horse and be like, man, that horse is so amazing, right,
and just you know, as part of our family. Almost overnight,
(18:00):
and one day I'm sitting at my desk looking out
at this horse, and I look up and I look
at that paint in the picture.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Let me tell you, those two horses were.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Almost identical to one another. And I went, holy shit.
I manifested this horse in my pasture because of looking
at that picture every single day. That's the power of
vision boards and manifesting your dreams and what you want
in life. So I'll actually be careful for what you wish. Right,
(18:34):
the picture represented something different to me. The horse itself
wasn't a good fit for the family. We wound up
giving it back to the mom. It was a little
bit more advanced for the kids than what we could
use at the time. But the realization of going, wow,
I've been looking at this picture every day and there
it is in my pasture.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Right, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So be careful what.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Your vision board is because you will achieve it if
you really mean it, and it is there on the
forefront of your mind. So anyways, it's a great powerful too,
And I want to tool and I want to encourage
everybody to consider creating their own vision board.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And I'm gonna I'm gonna segue I'm going to take
a hard right turn and I want you to hang
with me out there. People.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm a praying person.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm a man of faith, and we.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
We pray in our family.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We pray.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I've been around people who are much bigger, better prayers,
stronger faith.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Call it whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I always feel like I'm I'm lacking in that regard,
but I press in. And one thing I learned over
the years is is pray right, pray for.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What you want.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
That's that's part of your vision board vision board praying.
I don't I don't necessarily just call it manifestation. I
believe it's praying asking for what you want. But to
your point, the people that I know that are really
strong prayers always told me they say, pray specifically. You
need to ask for exactly what you want. If you
(20:05):
expect an answer, then what is that answer that you want?
The whole answer? And in your case with the horse,
if you were praying for that horse, you would also
have prayed if you were praying specifically for a horse
that was also going to be good with your children.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, that wasn't too advanced.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
So you know, sometimes we you know, we ask a
miss we don't know what to ask or we ask
a miss So pray specifically. If you're building your vision board,
build it specific to what you want. If it's a
new house, don't just have it any house. If it's
a log cabin that you really want, make that vision
board the log cabin. If you want it on a
(20:45):
lake or a body of water, put it in your
body of water. Pray specifically because you know what your
prayers will be answered. You know your visions will be realized,
So make them specific. You know I need a new
car a car?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Do you want?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
An importer?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Do?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Do you want a new Chevy?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Okay? How new? What color? What engine do you want?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
What trim level do you want?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I mean, seriously, dive in and go deep because you're
if you're going to get what you what you deserve, right, well,
regard of what you deserve is what you ask for.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'm giving a leadership speech this weekend at this Christian retreat,
and we talked just about that. You know how how
God's worked in my life through my prayers and through
my being very specific about my desires for my family,
right and where we want to go with this and
and so you're right, Rob, be careful what you pray for.
You might have a horse in your pastor that's not
(21:44):
a good fit, you know. But I love this exercise
and I want to.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Encourage people to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
We'll wrap up on that thought because this is this
is an important component to achieving your goals and and
finding that happiness. And don't leave anything off that board either,
because as Rod just proved, you know, God is a
He's a big guy and he will provide at all levels.
And you know what, if you don't believe in God,
(22:10):
give him a shot.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
See what he see what he delivers. Let's just say
that better watch out.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So yeah, yeah, test me, go ahead do it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Speaking of that, we are doing the Montana Camp May
twenty first, twenty second, twenty third here in Kellispell at
the College. Going to be a great event. It's his
fifth year in the running and the topics are faith, family, fitness,
and finance. So if any of those appeal to you, come.
I interviewed mister thank you, it's gonna be one of
(22:43):
our guests. He's on on this podcast channel Who's the show?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Before this?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
One incredible story. I would come just to hear him
speak live because I love his story. I'm gonna leave
it at that, So you listen to the episode, but
Rod and I will both be speaking there with Rachel
Is along with the many others.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So join us.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Montana Camp dot org will get you tickets, and hey,
if you like.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This show, share it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Want to be a part of our community Young Entrepreneur
Syndicate dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
We'd love to have you Rod, always good to.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
See you you too, my friend. Yeah, and have a
great weekend at Trace.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We'll do We'll do, man, all right, great having you
beautiful
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!