June 7, 2025 • 19 mins
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Your hosts, Jim Riley and Rod Kuntz, are seasoned entrepreneurs and mentors who’ve walked the walk in coaching, employee retention, retail, wholesale, fundraising, and creating thriving workplace cultures. Jim and Rod bring a refreshingly authentic style to every conversation, using their own successes and failures to teach strategies that work. This podcast is your go-to resource for growth, leadership, and real-world insights. They’ll show you how to optimize operations, embrace failure, and disrupt your industry, all while keeping success grounded in humility and paying it forward. Looking for strategies, connection, and a little inspiration? You’ve found your home. Let’s dream big, act boldly, and thrive together.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some
of the most interesting people that have said yes to
opportunities in their life. We hope that through these stories
you can learn to create your own destiny by saying yes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Along the way, join us.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
As we explored the new series government 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.
I believe that everyone has an important message work here. Hello,
and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
How you doing today, Rod Koots.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm doing as well as every day doing.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great, not too hard.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
When you wake up in the big sky Montana, you know,
you open that window and there it is, you cannot
miss it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was absolutely gord. I love the breaking of the dawn. Yeah,
now looking to the east and you just see that
light creeping up and you know it's coming and you
can still see stars in the sky and you know
it's just going to be a gorgeous day. And it was.
You know, it's fifty fifty two degrees when I was
up this morning. You know that was at five o'clock.
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, so you know, if you're listening from somewhere else,
Montana is quite the special place, especially as we transitioned
from those freezing cold winters into summer and Laurie, it's
big sky Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We had northern lights last night. If you were out,
oh did you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Around ten thirty and they only lasted less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
So it was cool.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Because our neighbors are in town, They're not here very often,
they live in another state, and I just had told them, like, hey,
the northern lights could be out to As I was
leaving their house and you know, the last crack of
sunshine was going away, they saw them and they.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Were so excited.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, it's all those special blessings, you know, and I
know every geographic era area has, you know, things like that.
You know, nature, nature shines through and you get to
see God in the world, you know, and that's what
it's all about.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, this is going to lead into our topic, and
really what we're talking about is appreciating what you have
in front of you. Right. I can't think of a
single place that I have lived in my life that
there wasn't something I appreciated about my surrounding area, whether
that was in the city, Lake Tahoe, you know, here
(02:24):
in my tent. Everywhere has had something significant worth appreciating,
you know, And I think a lot of times we
forget to step back and look at that. So where
if you're at step back and look at the values.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Of what's around you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely, and there's something to learn from all those environments too,
and not just natural environment, the cultural environment. You know.
I've been in the DC area, I've been on the
East Coast, I've been down south, I've been in Hawaii.
I've not spent any time in the area you grew
up in, but I've been in lots of different places
(02:58):
where you can immerse yourself in the culture. And there
are beautiful things in all of it, you know. And
I hate to use the word. It's almost a bad
word these days, but the diversity of environment and the
diversity of people and the diversity of thought is really
an awesome thing. It's a good thing, and it doesn't
(03:19):
have to be a divisive thing. It's not us against
the weather, right, the weather's not our enemy, regardless of
what the season is, you know, you just appreciate it.
And embrace it. And why don't we do that with
you know, people, groups, cultures?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We should.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, so here's my topic, let's go, and that is
utilizing the tools available to you. Utilizing the tools available
to you. And the reason why that's a topic today, Well,
we just came off of Montana Camp last week. It
was a three day conference with business leaders influencers in
(03:58):
several different sectors. The influencers spoke on life issues, the
business leaders spoke on business issues, but all great takeaways
if you took the time to sit there and listen,
there were takeaways from everybody that spoke, and.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know, the event.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
As we got closer and closer, the organizers dropped the
ticket prices to fifty nine dollars and they even suggested, hey,
come and go as you as you can, because we
understand two and a half days it's hard to get
off from work. If you spent fifty nine dollars and
you showed up for one of any of those presentations,
(04:39):
you would walk away with some value and some tools
that would either make you personally better or your business better.
And so as I started digesting that a little bit
this morning ride, like, I started thinking about.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
All the tools available.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To us that are either free or close to free,
that people don't utilize for personal and or for business.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's baffling to me. You know, I worked.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I was in the gym just before we logged in today,
and I've got some nice stuff. Okay, really, I've got
some nice stuff. But some of the items that I have,
like bands, they're like big rubber bands.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Like physical therapy, we use a lot of bands.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You could get a set of bands which represent different
weights if you will, for like twenty bucks, right, and
you can have a workout. You know, that's a tool
available to you. There's no excuse for I can't afford
a gym membership. You know, we'll get some bands. You
can do it in your bathroom, you know, or if
you can't afford the twenty bucks, get outside and get
(05:48):
some walking in or some lunges in or some push
ups in. But there's so many tools to make us
better that we just don't take the time to use
or recognize that they're there. And so what I like,
what I want to dialogue a little bit with, right,
is some of the tools that you recognize that are
available to people that they don't utilize at all, are
(06:10):
often enough.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And let's stay.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the cheaper range of things, not that they're not
as good of quality, but I want people to show
how affordable, it is, if not free, to have some tools. Okay,
so I'll go first while you think about it. Well,
first and foremost not a hard one. This podcast we
talk about, you know, the soft skills in business. We've
(06:37):
been doing this for over two years. I don't even
know how many episodes we've pushed out. I know my
show itself as a whole is over in four hundred
and seventy five shows, now, you know. So when you
look at a podcast as being a tool to help
make you better, and you know, there's millions of podcasts
out now, so the choice is yours, pick one and
jump in.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So podcast tools, there's books.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My kids just rented books at the library and I'm
been in the library for years, but you know they
showed up at home with a stack of books.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Free get a library card, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And so when you take the time to develop your
personal values and goals. Okay, so now you've got this
set of goals in front of you how am how
am I going to achieve these goals? Well, naturally you
start looking at well, what tools are resources are available
to me to achieve these goals?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And man, they're right in front of your face.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
You know, I'm going to pick all the obvious ones
before you go.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, oh great, well.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I can't not say Google and YouTube. Of course, yes,
you know Google and YouTube. And then I'm gonna I'll
say one last one. They'll let you go. At the conference,
there was a gentleman there that spoke about AI for an.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hour the tools that are available to you through AI.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That one discussion alone, that one hour that he spoke
was worth it for me to be at that conference
for two and a half days or whatever the accumulated
time I was there, not two and a half days,
because I came and went, but that one speech alone
was worth any amount of money that I could have spent,
because it's gonna make me more efficient in my business
(08:18):
and I'm going to grow my business and I'm going
to buy more time by using AI tools. By the way,
there's a number of AI platforms that are free or
hardly anything at all, So those are my I think
that was five or So what do you got.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What tools do you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Think people need to take more advantage of are available
that they're not using.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, I'm going to hit the first one first, and
I'm glad that you couch that by saying or they're
not using. The first tool is time.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah. Time.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
People are not using their time efficiently. And let's start.
Look at your phone. See how much time you're spending
on social media. I mean, just take a look. Please do,
if you're listening to this, open your phone up right
now and take a look at how much time you
spend on social media. And Okay, some of that is
(09:09):
checking in. Some of that might be business related. I
know you and I are bouncing around all the time
because we're looking at what is happening in the world,
in the business world, and culture in politics. So some
of that's valuable, right, So I don't want to discount
all that. And some of it's just cheap entertainment and
some of its mindless distraction. So we pay for entertainment,
(09:33):
but we don't need mindless distraction. If you're paying for entertainment,
you're making a choice to go out and spend x
amount of time at an event and spend x amount
of money at whether it's a concert or the theater
or a movie, you know, something like that. But how
much time do we waste? And it's okay to take
(09:55):
a mental break, a rest break and let your mind
just relax, if you go for a walk or something,
but we waste a lot of time. And even if
you're watching TV, if you're watching business shows or you're
watching a show with your family. I want to bring
up to stretch bands because I've gone through some rehab
with shoulder injuries, got some leg and foot stuff, and
(10:16):
I have a stretch band in my coffee table right
next to my recliner. And yes I have a recliner.
I bought it special for a rehab right but while
I'm sitting there, that stretch band is out almost every
time I sit down, and I literally it's resistance training.
And so while you're doing something, you can be doing
two things at once, especially if you're being distracted. So
(10:40):
start there. The other thing I will say is people
are not reading enough. There are so many free things
to read. You can go to a second hand store
and buy books for dirt cheap, go to the library
like your daughters did, and get them free. One of
my granddaughters has read I think it's sixty some books
already this year.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And not just little books. We're talking chapter books and stuff,
I mean above her age appropriate books. Yeah, she's a reader.
And one thing that we all know is that leaders
are all readers. You know, if you want to be
a leader, you need to be well read. So if
you're wasting your time on social media or I hate
(11:23):
to say it, golf. You know, if you're going to
go out and do a sporting event, go spend an
hour working out in the gym, go spend two hours
doing something heavy d But you spend four or five
hours walking around drinking and stuff. I don't care. That's
it's such a time sucker. And I know that. You know.
It's a distraction and it can be recreation, it can
(11:45):
be a sport, right, you know, there are professionals, but
if you're just if that's your go to for getting
out of the house and getting away from stuff, that's
four hours minimum. Right, that's a big time thing about you.
Wait it, I mean, take a look at what you're
spending your time on. So those are the big ones. Reading. Gosh,
(12:07):
you can get on like you said, online Spotify. You
can listen to books on tape for free, a lot
of them, or dirt cheap like you mentioned, or pennies
on the dollar. So it is we had that. It
was a military adage when I was in the service,
and this is from forty plus years ago. And the
(12:29):
principle is maximum utilization of available resources. That meant you're
using everything. You're using the environment, you're using cover, you're
using concealment, you are using the personnel you have, you're
using air support, you're using operations out in the field,
(12:49):
you know, listening stations. You're using everything, and if you're
not using it, it's going to come back and get you.
It puts you at a disadvantage. So if you're not
using the sources, shame on you. You know, there's it's
it's an excuse to not be using them.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, I just had a thought, you know about our
behaviors and how we do things, and you know how
we move move about different activities. If you were going
to go backpacking, okay, and you and so I've done
some pretty extreme backpacking trips. Mountaineer, which was a glacier
(13:27):
climb four days high elevation, Mount Whitney, there's an easy route,
the twenty two mile route, but there's also the mountaineers route,
which I've taken a couple of times, and that's a
guided service up a face, you know, ropes, six cent
cliffs and stuff like that. But if you're going to
do a backpacking trips, okay, you are going to pack
(13:49):
your bag with the exact tools that you need and hopefully,
because you're carrying that weight on your back, no more,
no less.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Right, So you're gonna map it out.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Here's where I'm going, Here's how long I'm going to be,
here's the expectation. Yeah, I'm going to bring a little
extra in case something happens, but you are going to
be crystal clear about what your needs are because it's
all going to be on your back. And by the way,
you're going to train in advance to carry that backpack
so that the day of the activity you're not suffering
(14:24):
from carrying ninety five pounds of gear. Right, And and
so what the point I want to make is that
business is very much like this backpack experience.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You write a business plan based on hopefully a set
of goals and values, and you're going to do something
that you dreamed about, you know, your business that you're
passionate about, and hopefully you've listed out the tools that
you've needed. And as you know, again like backpacking, something
new comes along. Hey there's a new hitch, you know,
(14:59):
new time, a rope or clasp, our water bottle or
filtration system, like I'm going to get that. I'm going
to add it to my pack and I'm going to
remove this because it's not as efficient.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Right. Business is just like that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you can approach business like that backpack that
you're going to carry, you're going to.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Utilize all the tools available to you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
There's no way you're going to put yourself out in
the middle of danger and exposure and not use those tools.
And why would we do that in business?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know? So think about it that way, and as
new things.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Come along, consider adding that to your routine or your
activities and removing something else that's not as efficient, and
you will find that this business opportunity will be more
successful because you're using the tool the tools available to you,
with efficiency, with planning, with care, with knowing where they
(15:53):
fit into the bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's a great analogy. Jim, absolutely superb and it it
brings to mind to the What we we counsel our
people to do is plan for the worst case scenarios
as well. Plan what's your exit strategy? What if something happens,
What if your health went downhill? What are you going
to do? Who's going to take over?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Who's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Run this thing? And you know communications is key, right,
If you're going up a mountain, you better have a
first aid kit, you better have somebody better have one turnique.
Somebody better have a radio or a satellite phone and
know how to use it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's it's what do you have to do to prepare
yourself for success? And if your mountain is you know
your business success, pack accordingly, but plan ahead, plan way ahead,
and plan for worst case scenarios. Sure, you know you
carry the satellite phone not to call mom when you're
done and say hey mommy, look at me at the
top of a mountain. You have that for emergencies, right,
(16:54):
That's that's what that's for. So and how many businesses
when they have a downturn or something, they're unprepared for it,
and then they go into a tailspin and they start
doing massive layoffs ahead of time, and then they lose them,
morale of the troops and the confidence of the investors,
all because they didn't think about what could go wrong. First,
(17:16):
I'll be surprised by adversity. You know, it should be
part of your plan. Adversity should be part of the plan.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, wow, well look that was free. That was free.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I think that we could probably give all kinds of
analogies as we go down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But again, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like to have these topics as reminders for people
that are listening in business, you know, just to prod
it a little bit, like, hey, you know what, maybe
I do need to think about the tools available to me.
We are in the process of updating some tools with
the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. I'm really excited about it that
we're going to be available June first. I'm not going
to share it on the show because I want our
(17:56):
members to know first, but I think it is going
to ramp up our offerings in a very unique and
beneficial way other than what we've been doing. And you know, right,
we're always looking for ways to improve or be better,
and I think this is really a way to step
up our game and offer something that I know a
lot of other coaches are not doing that operate similarly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So I'm going to leave it at that. But I
am hoping, my hope in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Prayer is is that our members will utilize this new
tool available to them come June first in a way
that will transition their business to the next step.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So I'll leave it at that. Be a member, I
want to know what I'm talking about. Jump in, Be
a member. That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And if you're not a member or looking at other
coaching groups this, I believe we're on the cutting edge.
We're on the cutting edge of gosh, what I want
to say, entrepreneurial success in today's new marketplace. Yeah, we
are no longer an academic driven society. That those days
(19:03):
are gone. And anyone who's still under that delusion is
under a delusion.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's We're in a whole new world. You know, it's
it's not the Collier's encyclopedia anymore. Yeah, those days are gone,
The classroom days are over. It's about hands on apprenticeships, mentorships,
professional coaching groups. It's the future.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There you go, jump in. You heard it right there,
all right, everybody, Thanks for tuning in to share the show.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
If you like it, and even if you don't shared anyway,
that's right.
Welcome to the Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some
of the most interesting people that have said yes to
opportunities in their life. We hope that through these stories
you can learn to create your own destiny by saying yes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Along the way, join us.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
As we explored the new series government 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.
I believe that everyone has an important message work here. Hello,
and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
How you doing today, Rod Koots.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm doing as well as every day doing.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great, not too hard.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
When you wake up in the big sky Montana, you know,
you open that window and there it is, you cannot
miss it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was absolutely gord. I love the breaking of the dawn. Yeah,
now looking to the east and you just see that
light creeping up and you know it's coming and you
can still see stars in the sky and you know
it's just going to be a gorgeous day. And it was.
You know, it's fifty fifty two degrees when I was
up this morning. You know that was at five o'clock.
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, so you know, if you're listening from somewhere else,
Montana is quite the special place, especially as we transitioned
from those freezing cold winters into summer and Laurie, it's
big sky Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We had northern lights last night. If you were out,
oh did you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Around ten thirty and they only lasted less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
So it was cool.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Because our neighbors are in town, They're not here very often,
they live in another state, and I just had told them, like, hey,
the northern lights could be out to As I was
leaving their house and you know, the last crack of
sunshine was going away, they saw them and they.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Were so excited.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, it's all those special blessings, you know, and I
know every geographic era area has, you know, things like that.
You know, nature, nature shines through and you get to
see God in the world, you know, and that's what
it's all about.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, this is going to lead into our topic, and
really what we're talking about is appreciating what you have
in front of you. Right. I can't think of a
single place that I have lived in my life that
there wasn't something I appreciated about my surrounding area, whether
that was in the city, Lake Tahoe, you know, here
(02:24):
in my tent. Everywhere has had something significant worth appreciating,
you know, And I think a lot of times we
forget to step back and look at that. So where
if you're at step back and look at the values.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Of what's around you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely, and there's something to learn from all those environments too,
and not just natural environment, the cultural environment. You know.
I've been in the DC area, I've been on the
East Coast, I've been down south, I've been in Hawaii.
I've not spent any time in the area you grew
up in, but I've been in lots of different places
(02:58):
where you can immerse yourself in the culture. And there
are beautiful things in all of it, you know. And
I hate to use the word. It's almost a bad
word these days, but the diversity of environment and the
diversity of people and the diversity of thought is really
an awesome thing. It's a good thing, and it doesn't
(03:19):
have to be a divisive thing. It's not us against
the weather, right, the weather's not our enemy, regardless of
what the season is, you know, you just appreciate it.
And embrace it. And why don't we do that with
you know, people, groups, cultures?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We should.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, so here's my topic, let's go, and that is
utilizing the tools available to you. Utilizing the tools available
to you. And the reason why that's a topic today, Well,
we just came off of Montana Camp last week. It
was a three day conference with business leaders influencers in
(03:58):
several different sectors. The influencers spoke on life issues, the
business leaders spoke on business issues, but all great takeaways
if you took the time to sit there and listen,
there were takeaways from everybody that spoke, and.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know, the event.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
As we got closer and closer, the organizers dropped the
ticket prices to fifty nine dollars and they even suggested, hey,
come and go as you as you can, because we
understand two and a half days it's hard to get
off from work. If you spent fifty nine dollars and
you showed up for one of any of those presentations,
(04:39):
you would walk away with some value and some tools
that would either make you personally better or your business better.
And so as I started digesting that a little bit
this morning ride, like, I started thinking about.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
All the tools available.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To us that are either free or close to free,
that people don't utilize for personal and or for business.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's baffling to me. You know, I worked.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I was in the gym just before we logged in today,
and I've got some nice stuff. Okay, really, I've got
some nice stuff. But some of the items that I have,
like bands, they're like big rubber bands.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Like physical therapy, we use a lot of bands.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You could get a set of bands which represent different
weights if you will, for like twenty bucks, right, and
you can have a workout. You know, that's a tool
available to you. There's no excuse for I can't afford
a gym membership. You know, we'll get some bands. You
can do it in your bathroom, you know, or if
you can't afford the twenty bucks, get outside and get
(05:48):
some walking in or some lunges in or some push
ups in. But there's so many tools to make us
better that we just don't take the time to use
or recognize that they're there. And so what I like,
what I want to dialogue a little bit with, right,
is some of the tools that you recognize that are
available to people that they don't utilize at all, are
(06:10):
often enough.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And let's stay.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
In the cheaper range of things, not that they're not
as good of quality, but I want people to show
how affordable, it is, if not free, to have some tools. Okay,
so I'll go first while you think about it. Well,
first and foremost not a hard one. This podcast we
talk about, you know, the soft skills in business. We've
(06:37):
been doing this for over two years. I don't even
know how many episodes we've pushed out. I know my
show itself as a whole is over in four hundred
and seventy five shows, now, you know. So when you
look at a podcast as being a tool to help
make you better, and you know, there's millions of podcasts
out now, so the choice is yours, pick one and
jump in.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So podcast tools, there's books.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
My kids just rented books at the library and I'm
been in the library for years, but you know they
showed up at home with a stack of books.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Free get a library card, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And so when you take the time to develop your
personal values and goals. Okay, so now you've got this
set of goals in front of you how am how
am I going to achieve these goals? Well, naturally you
start looking at well, what tools are resources are available
to me to achieve these goals?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And man, they're right in front of your face.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
You know, I'm going to pick all the obvious ones
before you go.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, oh great, well.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I can't not say Google and YouTube. Of course, yes,
you know Google and YouTube. And then I'm gonna I'll
say one last one. They'll let you go. At the conference,
there was a gentleman there that spoke about AI for an.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hour the tools that are available to you through AI.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That one discussion alone, that one hour that he spoke
was worth it for me to be at that conference
for two and a half days or whatever the accumulated
time I was there, not two and a half days,
because I came and went, but that one speech alone
was worth any amount of money that I could have spent,
because it's gonna make me more efficient in my business
(08:18):
and I'm going to grow my business and I'm going
to buy more time by using AI tools. By the way,
there's a number of AI platforms that are free or
hardly anything at all, So those are my I think
that was five or So what do you got.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
What tools do you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Think people need to take more advantage of are available
that they're not using.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, I'm going to hit the first one first, and
I'm glad that you couch that by saying or they're
not using. The first tool is time.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah. Time.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
People are not using their time efficiently. And let's start.
Look at your phone. See how much time you're spending
on social media. I mean, just take a look. Please do,
if you're listening to this, open your phone up right
now and take a look at how much time you
spend on social media. And Okay, some of that is
(09:09):
checking in. Some of that might be business related. I
know you and I are bouncing around all the time
because we're looking at what is happening in the world,
in the business world, and culture in politics. So some
of that's valuable, right, So I don't want to discount
all that. And some of it's just cheap entertainment and
some of its mindless distraction. So we pay for entertainment,
(09:33):
but we don't need mindless distraction. If you're paying for entertainment,
you're making a choice to go out and spend x
amount of time at an event and spend x amount
of money at whether it's a concert or the theater
or a movie, you know, something like that. But how
much time do we waste? And it's okay to take
(09:55):
a mental break, a rest break and let your mind
just relax, if you go for a walk or something,
but we waste a lot of time. And even if
you're watching TV, if you're watching business shows or you're
watching a show with your family. I want to bring
up to stretch bands because I've gone through some rehab
with shoulder injuries, got some leg and foot stuff, and
(10:16):
I have a stretch band in my coffee table right
next to my recliner. And yes I have a recliner.
I bought it special for a rehab right but while
I'm sitting there, that stretch band is out almost every
time I sit down, and I literally it's resistance training.
And so while you're doing something, you can be doing
two things at once, especially if you're being distracted. So
(10:40):
start there. The other thing I will say is people
are not reading enough. There are so many free things
to read. You can go to a second hand store
and buy books for dirt cheap, go to the library
like your daughters did, and get them free. One of
my granddaughters has read I think it's sixty some books
already this year.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And not just little books. We're talking chapter books and stuff,
I mean above her age appropriate books. Yeah, she's a reader.
And one thing that we all know is that leaders
are all readers. You know, if you want to be
a leader, you need to be well read. So if
you're wasting your time on social media or I hate
(11:23):
to say it, golf. You know, if you're going to
go out and do a sporting event, go spend an
hour working out in the gym, go spend two hours
doing something heavy d But you spend four or five
hours walking around drinking and stuff. I don't care. That's
it's such a time sucker. And I know that. You know.
It's a distraction and it can be recreation, it can
(11:45):
be a sport, right, you know, there are professionals, but
if you're just if that's your go to for getting
out of the house and getting away from stuff, that's
four hours minimum. Right, that's a big time thing about you.
Wait it, I mean, take a look at what you're
spending your time on. So those are the big ones. Reading. Gosh,
(12:07):
you can get on like you said, online Spotify. You
can listen to books on tape for free, a lot
of them, or dirt cheap like you mentioned, or pennies
on the dollar. So it is we had that. It
was a military adage when I was in the service,
and this is from forty plus years ago. And the
(12:29):
principle is maximum utilization of available resources. That meant you're
using everything. You're using the environment, you're using cover, you're
using concealment, you are using the personnel you have, you're
using air support, you're using operations out in the field,
(12:49):
you know, listening stations. You're using everything, and if you're
not using it, it's going to come back and get you.
It puts you at a disadvantage. So if you're not
using the sources, shame on you. You know, there's it's
it's an excuse to not be using them.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, I just had a thought, you know about our
behaviors and how we do things, and you know how
we move move about different activities. If you were going
to go backpacking, okay, and you and so I've done
some pretty extreme backpacking trips. Mountaineer, which was a glacier
(13:27):
climb four days high elevation, Mount Whitney, there's an easy route,
the twenty two mile route, but there's also the mountaineers route,
which I've taken a couple of times, and that's a
guided service up a face, you know, ropes, six cent
cliffs and stuff like that. But if you're going to
do a backpacking trips, okay, you are going to pack
(13:49):
your bag with the exact tools that you need and hopefully,
because you're carrying that weight on your back, no more,
no less.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Right, So you're gonna map it out.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Here's where I'm going, Here's how long I'm going to be,
here's the expectation. Yeah, I'm going to bring a little
extra in case something happens, but you are going to
be crystal clear about what your needs are because it's
all going to be on your back. And by the way,
you're going to train in advance to carry that backpack
so that the day of the activity you're not suffering
(14:24):
from carrying ninety five pounds of gear. Right, And and
so what the point I want to make is that
business is very much like this backpack experience.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You write a business plan based on hopefully a set
of goals and values, and you're going to do something
that you dreamed about, you know, your business that you're
passionate about, and hopefully you've listed out the tools that
you've needed. And as you know, again like backpacking, something
new comes along. Hey there's a new hitch, you know,
(14:59):
new time, a rope or clasp, our water bottle or
filtration system, like I'm going to get that. I'm going
to add it to my pack and I'm going to
remove this because it's not as efficient.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Right. Business is just like that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you can approach business like that backpack that
you're going to carry, you're going to.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Utilize all the tools available to you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
There's no way you're going to put yourself out in
the middle of danger and exposure and not use those tools.
And why would we do that in business?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know? So think about it that way, and as
new things.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Come along, consider adding that to your routine or your
activities and removing something else that's not as efficient, and
you will find that this business opportunity will be more
successful because you're using the tool the tools available to you,
with efficiency, with planning, with care, with knowing where they
(15:53):
fit into the bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's a great analogy. Jim, absolutely superb and it it
brings to mind to the What we we counsel our
people to do is plan for the worst case scenarios
as well. Plan what's your exit strategy? What if something happens,
What if your health went downhill? What are you going
to do? Who's going to take over?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Who's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Run this thing? And you know communications is key, right,
If you're going up a mountain, you better have a
first aid kit, you better have somebody better have one turnique.
Somebody better have a radio or a satellite phone and
know how to use it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's it's what do you have to do to prepare
yourself for success? And if your mountain is you know
your business success, pack accordingly, but plan ahead, plan way ahead,
and plan for worst case scenarios. Sure, you know you
carry the satellite phone not to call mom when you're
done and say hey mommy, look at me at the
top of a mountain. You have that for emergencies, right,
(16:54):
That's that's what that's for. So and how many businesses
when they have a downturn or something, they're unprepared for it,
and then they go into a tailspin and they start
doing massive layoffs ahead of time, and then they lose them,
morale of the troops and the confidence of the investors,
all because they didn't think about what could go wrong. First,
(17:16):
I'll be surprised by adversity. You know, it should be
part of your plan. Adversity should be part of the plan.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, wow, well look that was free. That was free.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I think that we could probably give all kinds of
analogies as we go down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But again, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I like to have these topics as reminders for people
that are listening in business, you know, just to prod
it a little bit, like, hey, you know what, maybe
I do need to think about the tools available to me.
We are in the process of updating some tools with
the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate. I'm really excited about it that
we're going to be available June first. I'm not going
to share it on the show because I want our
(17:56):
members to know first, but I think it is going
to ramp up our offerings in a very unique and
beneficial way other than what we've been doing. And you know, right,
we're always looking for ways to improve or be better,
and I think this is really a way to step
up our game and offer something that I know a
lot of other coaches are not doing that operate similarly.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So I'm going to leave it at that. But I
am hoping, my hope in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Prayer is is that our members will utilize this new
tool available to them come June first in a way
that will transition their business to the next step.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So I'll leave it at that. Be a member, I
want to know what I'm talking about. Jump in, Be
a member. That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And if you're not a member or looking at other
coaching groups this, I believe we're on the cutting edge.
We're on the cutting edge of gosh, what I want
to say, entrepreneurial success in today's new marketplace. Yeah, we
are no longer an academic driven society. That those days
(19:03):
are gone. And anyone who's still under that delusion is
under a delusion.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's We're in a whole new world. You know, it's
it's not the Collier's encyclopedia anymore. Yeah, those days are gone,
The classroom days are over. It's about hands on apprenticeships, mentorships,
professional coaching groups. It's the future.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
There you go, jump in. You heard it right there,
all right, everybody, Thanks for tuning in to share the show.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
If you like it, and even if you don't shared anyway,
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