February 17, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode...
We sit down with Kevin Waugaman, founder of Momentors, LLC, to dive into his book on personal growth and overcoming obstacles. Kevin shares insights from his journey—rising from a busboy to CEO and now entrepreneur—while navigating struggles with excess, self-limiting behaviors, and finding true purpose. His book is designed as a practical, easy-to-digest guide for those seeking personal and professional growth, filled with actionable steps to help you maximize your potential. Whether you're just starting out or need a mindset shift, this episode is packed with wisdom to help you level up.
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Welcome to the Powerof Authority Spotlight.
I'm your host, Michelle Prince, founderand CEO of Performance Publishing Group,
making a difference one story at a time.
We'll be shining the light on successfulfounders, entrepreneurs, business
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We'll talk about how they builttheir businesses, are creating
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Hey, everybody.
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All right.
Let me introduce you to myguest today, Kevin Wagaman.
He is a business and life coach.
He's a Christian, a loving husband, proudfather, and founder of Momentors LLC.
Kevin created Momentors with a missionof helping people maximize potential and
remove obstacles to live out their dreams.
He started his working career as abusboy at Sawgrass Marriott before going
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on to successful sales and operationsroles in finance and real estate.
He received numerouspromotions over the years.
Rising in the ranks to CEO of BerkshireHathaway Home Services Florida
Network Realty before launching hiscurrent entrepreneurial venture.
Born in the small town of Stewart,Florida, he grew up loving the outdoors
and could often be found fishing,surfing, playing most sports, and
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simply swinging through the mangroves.
As a young adult, he struggled withoverdoing things, eating, drinking,
partying, spending, working.
Yes, you can overdo this amongother self limiting behaviors.
Can't wait to talk about that one, Kevin.
He draws on many of these personalexperiences and the challenges
overcome as a mentor and coach.
He's always driven to helppeople to remove the obstacles
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in their lives, to realize truepotential and higher fulfillment.
He has personally moved from salesstruggles to success, large debt to
financial freedom, poor and good health,aimlessness to purpose, excessiveness to
moderation, bad habits to good habits,mentee to mentor, follower to successful
leader, solo player to family man.
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Kevin and his wife, Jessica, son,Elliot, and daughter, Raelyn, currently
live in Jacksonville, Florida.
And Kevin, I'm so excitedto have you on the show.
Yeah, thanks, Michelle.
I'm really excited to be here andthank you for for what you do and
shining the light and entrepreneursand people doing big things.
I'm glad to be included in thatin that group and to your team of
performance publishing for helpingget the book launched as crucial.
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And I'm so grateful.
So thanks for having me.
Of course.
Well, I'm excited because, well,you're doing so many things.
And by the way, I love your bio becauseyou touch on so many things that I know
for myself and other people listeningcan totally resonate with, right?
We we've all been somewhere, butwe want to be somewhere else.
And so let's start with you.
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I just want to know a little bit moreabout you, about yourself, your family.
So.
Tell us about Kevin.
Yeah, sure.
So, born and raised pretty much, I callthe east coast of Florida my hometown
because as a child, my dad was adeveloper and so we moved around a lot.
And so, I mean, I've lived everywherefrom Miami to Jacksonville and every,
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just about everything in between.
I love the state, love the eastcoast of Florida, , and you know,
didn't, didn't deal with, Disruptionsin life until when I was 10 years
old, my parents got a divorce.
And so that was a little bit traumaticfor my sister and I and and and so
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the moving around a lot continued.
So I think I was at, like,maybe 7 or 8 schools before high
school, even and so moving around,trying to adapt to different
environments and and then, you know.
Moving through, you know, childhoodinto, you know, teenage years, we kind of
settled in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
So started to put down some, someroots here, went to college up in
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North Carolina, Elon University.
And then got into the working world backhere in Jacksonville pretty quickly.
, and, , after graduating from college,got right into a job with Merrill
Lynch here in Jacksonville andstarted my, my corporate journey.
I'll say it's kind of phase one of my,of my experience in the working world.
And while doing that.
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You know, just like everybody elsetrying to figure out, navigate
the real world really startedhaving some, some, , challenges.
And I'll, , I'll give a lotof credit to my, my parents.
I learned tremendously valuablelessons from both of my parents.
My dad was an excellent businessman,taught me a lot about how to navigate the
business world, negotiations, great stuff.
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My mom was one of the most caringpeople that you'll ever meet in life.
And so I kind of,
And so I think that gave me a goodfoundation, but I was also a bit
of a rebellious young man, I guess.
So kind of, , kind of went offand made quite a few mistakes.
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, and you read some of it in the bio.
Just, you know, healthwas not a priority for me.
I was, I was partying too much.
I was aimless.
I was smoking packs of cigarettes a day.
I mean, it was just, I was all over theplace and experiencing some success, you
know in what I was doing I was doing sellI was sale selling and I'm doing okay at
that and and had a great group of friendsand and that was all good, but it was
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a over a period of time that I realizedthat , And through some mentors that kind
of spoke into my life that you know Ireally need to get a bit more intentional
About about where where I want to go overthe long term, as opposed to just kind
of blowing wherever the wind took me, andI think that's kind of the foundation.
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I mean, that's a real short.
So, I mean, eventually got, you know,as far as the career went, got into
real estate, left finance, got intoreal estate for a variety of reasons.
We might, we might get into, youknow, And then grew not only a
sales career in real estate, butalso, , got into the leadership side
of things first as a sales manager.
Then as a vice president, eventually, asyou mentioned, CEO of a large company in
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Jacksonville, so a lot of experience onthe business side, a lot of experience on
the personal development side going from.
Aimlessness and purposelessness andterrible health to, you know, and gosh,
I would nowhere near perfect what Isay, but definitely in a different
area and more intentional aboutwhere I'm taking things these days.
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And so that's where that'skind of the, the overview.
My, I went, I met my wife in 2006.
She's, I'm so fortunate.
She's amazing.
She was a big part.
In addition to my faith,a big part of me kind of.
Moving in the right direction.
She's very helpful inthat, , over a period of time.
We got married in 2013, and thenour first child in 2017, Elliot,
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and then Raylan came along in 2022,and we're getting ready to celebrate
her 3rd birthday in a couple days.
We have 50 people descending on ourhousehold this weekend to do that.
And so a lot of stuff going on rightnow, but just so thankful and blessed
to have this, the family that I do.
Having been able to navigate throughsome challenging times along the way.
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Well, and that's part of why I loveyour story, Kevin, because, you
know, I know I can relate to this.
I know most people can.
I mean, you, your life isgoing in one direction.
You think you have it figured out.
And I was about to ask you,well, what was the catalyst?
What was it that kind of nudged you?
And you said your faith, yourwife, , and also a mentor.
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What?
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
I was, I was just going togive a quick shout out now.
He's he passed away a few years ago.
, but David McWilliams was avery, very big presence in my
life in that early 20s range.
Now, I'm not going to say I metDavid and then snap my fingers
and everything went awesome.
That's not the way it happened.
But.
But I did see in him character howhe lived his life and characteristics
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and his family life and his spirituallife and how he approached work and
how he had this what I perceived as.
Beautiful balance or harmony isprobably the better word in, in
how he lived in, in his integrity.
It just, it just set agreat example for me.
So there were still some, you know,bumps along the road, but that was a
really good initial mentor for me again,outside of my parents that, , that
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helped me in the right direction.
It just goes to show you don't knowhow you're impacting someone until it's
right, you know, he, he, he may or may nothave known the impact he, he had on you.
And so I told him no.
And that's, that's 1 message that Iwould, I would relay is because as I,
as I learned along the way, , to, toappreciate, you know, people that, you
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know, speak into you, , , every time Igot a promotion, every time something
went well, when I got married orwhatever, he, he either got a call from
me or a, or a note of gratitude for me.
And I, and, and I, I, I lethim know, I let him know.
That is so good.
Zig Ziglar had a wall of gratitude.
So all the people throughout hislife, starting with his mother, all.
All the way on through, , you know, bossesand other people who have spoken into him.
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And he never wanted to forget, you know,we're never, we, we are who we are and
we get where we are not on our own.
It's kind of like, he would tell a funnystory about, you know, when you see a
turtle on a fence post, you got to believethey didn't get there on their own.
That's the case, right?
So that's right.
That's right.
And he was the first of a handful.
I mean, I think mentors in life are soimportant and learning lessons along
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the way are so important I had notheard that about Zig Ziglar, but 1
thing that I started doing, and it's alittle morbid, but but it's important
to me is I've had quite a few friendsand family passed away over the years.
And and so when I, whenI started doing was.
Make, keeping a list of who they were andthen what's the most important lesson or
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character trait that they had, that if Ican somehow carry that forward, , would be
a good reminder of that, of that person.
So I, I, I don't like, I don't likethat the list is growing, but I
do feel like it is a way for me toremember and also think back to some
of the great lessons that they taught.
Oh, I love that idea, actually, that,that's such a, I mean, I may borrow that.
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Thank you.
I'll feel free.
Thank you.
We all borrow.
We all, we all borrow, right?
We all share.
Right.
There's no original.
Maybe I heard, maybeI read that somewhere.
I don't know.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
Well, I want to make sure wetalk about your book because
One to Grow On is your new book.
And I, let's, let's tell the audiencemore about what is this book about?
Yeah.
So the, the kind of the beginningof it was, you know, 2020, I think
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I, along with, , You know, mostpeople got really introspective.
We have this new This new virus and andwe really didn't know what was going on.
I don't think anyone had any levelof expertise for a long time And and
about that time also a couple of myfriends Passed away now not from covid
for other reasons and and so and theyall they both had some young kids
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and at the time I had a Three yearold Elliot was three at the time.
And so I just started thinking, youknow, if something happened to me, then,
you know, there are a lot of thingsthat I'd like to pass along to him.
A lot of lessons I learned along theway that I'd like him to be able to,
, you know, relate to or learn from.
And so I just started writing them,writing lessons down about the same time.
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I was doing a training sessionfor, , a group of sales professionals.
, and, , it was, I think it was beforewe actually really started leaving, you
know, leaving the office offices, butsomebody meant, you know, I told a few
stories and gave the lesson and someonecame up to me afterwards and said,
Hey, you're consider writing a book.
I thought, well, I kind of alreadyam, but if there's a way for me
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to expand the scope of this thing.
And, , and then I started thinking, whatif I were to write something to someone
that was struggling the way I was inmy mid 20s that maybe doesn't have that
mentor that maybe doesn't have someonethat that's that's speaking into them.
, and so it became kind of a convergenceof those things and that's that
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was the birth of 1 to grow on.
So it's really just for.
For anybody that hasn't been intentionalabout personal development or thinks,
geez, I'm not, you know, what am Idoing or not sure where to begin?
And that's kind of the initial concept.
So it's it's lessons.
I've I researched it a lot.
I mean, the book, the thing took3 years to write 4 years to write
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and and it also, it's not designedto be like, , And end all be all.
It's called one to grow on.
The idea though is this is a goodstarting point, but then within
the book, there are all kinds ofresources of the different topics.
So if you want to learn more about, youknow, habit and skill development, well,
here's, here's what I went through.
Here's some action steps to take.
And by the way, here's 3.
if you're really, if this resonateswith you, here's 3 really good books.
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That that were influentialinfluential to me that you can go
dive further into these things.
And so that's really the conceptis, you know, helping someone
I, you know, that isn't reallyintentional about personal growth and
development to just start somewhere.
That's, that's the idea to sayis the ideal reader for this.
Is it somebody.
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Maybe in the younger years, like youwere when you were transitioning kind
of, or is it for those of us who havebeen through many seasons and maybe
we're looking, , for our next, but whowould you say would benefit the most?
Yeah, I think, I think theway you said it is perfect.
The, the, it was writtentowards me at age 23 though.
And so if somebody is coming,coming to that time, I mean,
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you got to be ready for it.
Like I think there's a, youknow, there, there's, there, I
believe everybody's reachable,but at different periods of time.
So I think if you're, if you're thinking.
Yeah, you know, and it doesn't matterif you're, you know, 25 or 80, if you're
thinking, geez, I could use a differentoutlook, I could use some different
ideas, maybe a mindset thing, maybe ahabits thing, then it could be for you,
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but really it's, it's, it's the, youknow, coming out of college, you know,
low twenties, mid twenties, that was theidea that the, the, the target market
I had in mind when I, when I wrote it,because those were where I learned a lot
of the lessons that I wanted to pass alongto, , you know, to Elliot in terms of
how to overcome some of those challenges.
I love that because I think youand I talked about this early on,
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but when I wrote my first book,that was exactly my motivation.
I never intended that I wouldshare it with anyone else.
I wrote my first book winning inlife now for my boys who at the time
were seven and five second grade andkindergarten, and now they're your book.
, and shift it to both of thembecause now 25 and one is 20.
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He'll be 22 in March.
And, and so it's almost like, those arethe things that I probably was exposed to
at that age, but maybe I wasn't listening.
And so, and sometimes, especiallyfor our own kids, sometimes they
need to hear it through other people.
Right?
No question.
Yeah.
And by the way, thank you for that.
I appreciate that.
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And and I would love to hear feedback.
I love getting feedbackfrom from all of it.
And, you know, we also do havea mechanism for the feedback.
We turn the book into a course and thecourse actually walks people through.
There's a video.
There's action plans.
There's webinars.
So, for someone that gets into the bookand says, well, I really like this.
This resonates and wants tokind of go a little bit further.
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, and that, and that does have a feedbackloop because then they could say, well,
I tried this and this is what happened.
And this is how I approached it.
And this is what I tweak maybe andthen we just share the, the, , the
wins inside of our LinkedIn community.
So, , I think we'll talk a littlebit about where people can go in a
few minutes, but, , but, , I, I, Ilove hearing back from, from people
that have experienced the book and,you know, whether, whether they had
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a big win from it, or, you know, Hey,I tried this and this didn't work for
me, but I did it this way instead.
I love it.
And I love that you havebeyond the book too.
So you do have all ofthese resources and sure.
And, and then let's talk about those,your coaching, cause you know, your
business, my mentors, you're an executivecoach consultant, you do a lot of
different things beyond just the book.
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, But what challenges do you seeor do you encounter when you're
working with other leaders?
People that are, and it couldbe sales people, but it could
be also business leaders.
Yep.
What are you encountering out there?
Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm sofortunate that the people I get
to work with are, are amazing.
And I, I love them all.
And, and, and most of the time I findthat I don't want it more for them
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than they want it for themselves.
Because every once in a while in myleadership career, sometimes you do,
you want something more for someonethan they want it for themselves.
Most of the people I get to work withright now are pretty, pretty well
motivated and engaged in what they'redoing, but, you know, I've been doing,
I've been coaching people for a lotof years and I generally find areas,
six areas where people get stuck and,and that is Sometimes a challenge to
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help people identify where that is.
And so just to realquickly, , foundational.
So sometimes people will get stuck becausethey haven't really spent time to think
about, you know, what is my purpose?
What is my mission?
And it's, it could change overtime, but right now, what is it?
That I'm really trying to accomplish.
What's my vision for my lifefrom, from, you know, family
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wise to occupation to recreation.
What are some things that I can seemyself doing over a period of time?
And then the other thing I have my clientsdo is think about their principles.
What are some of the values that arenon negotiable for you as you go?
Build this life for yourself.
Because if you have a good set ofprinciples or values, then you have
your filter for decision making, right?
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And some people that, that have a hardtime making decisions one path or the
other, sometimes it's because I haven't,they haven't built that filter yet
as to what's non negotiable for them.
So that's, that's one thingthat we kind of peel back the
onion on the next thing is.
That can be a challenge is mindset oranother way is like your self worth.
I work some people where it's like,you just have to get to the point
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where, you know, you deserve success.
You're putting in the work, you kind ofgetting in your own way because there's
something that we have to figure outthat's block, whether it's a fear thing
or whether it's a worthiness thing.
Let's let's peel back the onion thereand that can be challenging as well.
Then we get into like now we're gettingwe're moving from kind of philosophical.
Now we're getting into like planningand time and energy management.
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And for some people livinga big life is a fear thing.
Some people it's.
I'm they're they're all over theplace with time and energy management.
So we get into focus and we get intominimizing drama and distractions and
then we get into habit development andskills and what you know, if there's
a gap between knowing what to do andactually what to do and actually doing it.
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What is getting in the way there?
And then finally, it's, it's,it's being ready for challenges
because it will get challenging.
And so what's your resilience planand then celebrate the journey.
Not, not just the milestones,not just the accomplishments,
but you know, what are we doing?
What are we doing it for?
If we can't figure out a wayto find joy along the way,
even through the challenges.
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And by the way, This is not, youknow, this is not me preachy.
This is me constantly going through allthese and trying to improve in my own life
and trying to help, you know, and tryingto work as a family unit and in service
to others and clients and, and try to dobetter with this stuff ourselves as well.
So yeah.
And, and, you know, the, the biggestchallenge is self leadership.
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You know, a lot of these things that,that I, I sit down and look someone
in the eye or look someone throughthe zoom and say, You know, hey, let's
identify some things you ought to bedoing and then make a prescription.
I, I look at myself and say, all right,is this, am I living this out myself?
And, and so, so that's a bigchallenge too, but we do it.
So we do it in a, in kind of a unique way.
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So there's different coaching philosophiesand I've kind of combined three.
It's Socratic, it's mentorshipand it's accountability.
And we move, there's fluidity throughthose different areas because.
Sometimes, often, the person I'mcoaching knows the answer, and it's
just a series of questions, andit's better if they come up with it.
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Sometimes they don'tknow the answer, though.
I don't believe the studentalways knows the answer.
Sometimes it's, I've been through it,they really need some advice, and so
that's where the mentorship part comes in.
And then once it's, we've identifiedwhat the thing is, what do I need to add,
what do I need to reduce, whatever itis, then there's an accountability piece.
And so it's just trying tofigure out, customize to each
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individual where they are.
And what they need and that and sometimesI can diagnose that pretty quickly
and sometimes it takes me a while.
Some people are hard to read.
And so that we get into like, personalityassessments and that type of stuff
and when necessary, but it's it'sso challenging in 1 respect because.
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I'm not in it just to, you know,for, for the revenue piece of it.
I, I, I am serious about theoutcomes for the people I work with.
And so, so we, you know, we really,we really put together a plan that
not only they understand why behindit, but they are, there's clarity on.
The what and and what theexpectations are each week was long.
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That was a long answer now.
It's just about to say, though,I can feel your passion, though.
I mean, yes, you are doing this.
It is a business, but I can feel Ican feel it that this is something
more than that for you, you know, andto be able to there is nothing better
than to see someone's life changed asa result of something that, you know,
whether you asked a question to helpthem to figure it out on their own
or whether you gave him direction.
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I like that.
You have all 3 aspects of your coaching.
Good.
, I've been a coach, and I've been inthe, the coachee seat, and sometimes
I don't want you to just ask me thequestion, sometimes I want you to tell
me what to do, and sometimes you don'thold me accountable and say, guess what?
You, you, you, you dropped the ball.
You said you would do it, and you didn't.
Let's, let's fix it.
So I love your approach, but I can seeit comes from passion more than anything.
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Yeah, it, it, it does.
I, I care a lot.
And, , I really enjoy, I really enjoy the,, the outcomes when, and, and by the way, at
the same time, not taking credit for it.
You know, it's, it's, you're the one, youknow, it's, oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Oh, this has been life changing.
You're the one doing the work.
You know, the, the real value in coachingis not the hour that we're together.
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It's everything in betweenuntil the next hour.
That's where you'redoing the amazing work.
And so I try to makesure my people know that.
I love that you said that becauseso many times I'll get that same
thing, you know, thank you can doit with no, no, no, you did it.
You broke the book.
You did the hard work.
You, you know, so it'sa team effort there.
1 thing I have to just also pointout before we move on is, , helping
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them to celebrate the successesversus just the accomplishment.
, and, and, and the journey.
And I learned that early in life.
Somebody had suggested that to me.
In fact, they had suggested keeping trackof, , doing, I had a success journal
and success did not mean accomplishment.
And it meant maybe I completedall my tasks in a day, or maybe
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I made someone smile or maybe,and you keep it in this journal.
And if you're a high achiever, likemost people who you're probably
working with is when you're havingthose down days and you're feeling.
I have, I'm just, I've failed.
I'm so behind schedule.
I haven't done anything is you goback and look, you're like, you
know what it's, it's, it's alla journey and I am successful.
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It doesn't mean I'm, I'm justdoing and doing and doing.
And I know if people, I can fallin the trap of just accomplishment.
And not stopping and realizing.
So I like that you really helpyour, , the people that you're working
with to, to appreciate the journey.
That's yeah.
Thank you.
And then that I love your idea.
And, and it certainly is, that'sa challenge for all of us, myself.
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Myself included.
But I love that.
And you know, if I get up and Iexercise in the morning, one of
the chapters in the book talksabout starting and ending the day.
Well, I believe if you start and end theday, well, then a lot of the stuff in
between that may be causing friction orissues can starts to starts to wrap up.
And if I get up in the morningand I exercise, it's the exercise
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that should be celebrated.
Not whether or not I lost fivepounds at the end of the month.
It's the actual act of the exercisethat should be implemented.
And so that's where the wins happen.
Same thing with anything elsethat you're doing to develop a
business or to, to, you know, focuson your family life or whatever.
It's the, I spent 30 meaningfulminutes with my child today
uninterrupted, no devices, no whatever.
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That's that's the stuffthat I'm talking about.
And so keeping a journal of it, Ithink, makes a lot of sense because,
you know, the tough days will thedark clouds will form the tough days
will come and to be able to havesomething to look back on and do that.
One other journaling idea is.
Is if this is a, this is personal to mebecause I used to do this and I broke the
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habit when something didn't go my way, , Iwas in a presentation that didn't go great
or I didn't get the sale or whatever itwas, the employee left, they quit, I used
to ruminate and I would just play it backover and over and over again in my mind.
And eventually I realized thatthat's just feeding the non
conscious brain with negativity.
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So I started journaling what happened.
Yeah.
What went wrong or what excuse me whatI did that I don't think or what I did
that was okay or good and then whatwould I do differently next time and
doing that help me put it to bed and takethe lesson from it and not continue to
screw myself up about it just anotheryou when you mentioned journaling I
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thought that I would share that as wellbecause that's been helpful for me.
Yeah.
And, and I love, soyou're a constant learner.
It sounds like, like I, and Ihave a passion for this as well.
So you and I, I think could talkforever about, but I do want to know.
So you, the book has been out fora little while and you're, you're
continuing to do new things on it.
And so there's so much good content inthe book already, but is there anything
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that's happened since you wrote the book?
Any new thoughts or new, , thingsthat you've learned personally,
since you're constantly learning?
Yeah.
You know, the, yeah.
What I, I didn't spend a lot of timeon in the book, I've spent more time
researching recently and I'm not a doctor,but I've been reading, like, Daniel Amen
comes to mind a lot about brain health.
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And so there's a lot of work on mindsetand worthiness and that's all amazing.
His, his thesis is if you don't havea healthy brain, a lot of that stuff.
It's either more difficult or itdoesn't work at all and so I've
been really looking into, you know,and he's got a couple books, change
your brain, change your life.
And I think the otherone's called bright minds.
And so that's where I'm going now.
And interestingly enough, recently,I found myself in the emergency room
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because I went blurry in my left eye.
And and, , and I know that's not good.
And so that could be really bad.
And I won't make it a dramatic story.
Everything's everything's fine.
It wasn't, you know, what goesoff in your mind is like, oh,
my gosh, I'm having a stroke.
And and so, so I did all the thingsand, you know, go into the hospital
and it's like, it's so visceral, butsurreal at the same time, they look at
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me and they get on the microphone in theemergency room and they're like, we have
a, we have a stroke alert and I'm like.
Is this really happening?
And, and so next thing I know,I'm, you know, in the CT machine
and they're doing all thesetests and the MRI and everything.
And, and so the learning lesson is.
Got to take care of your brain becausethere were a lot of years that I did not.
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And so if there is, if, if, if I am astroke candidate, it's not for what I'm
doing now, it's for what I did eight yearsago, 10 years ago, smoking cigarettes,
drinking too much, that type of stuff.
So that's, that's 1 learning lesson.
If I could go put that a little bitmore in the book about, you know,
trying to reach the 20 somethingsor 30 somethings about earlier than
later, start getting serious aboutthat stuff, then then that's 1 thing.
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And who knows?
Maybe there's a future.
Future book, but, , but that's 1 thing.
And the other thing is, you know, thethings I were praying for while I was
in those machines did not have to dowith making more money or anything
other than, you know, family, I wantmore time with my family, my friends.
I want to make a bigger difference.
You know, I want to make sure I makea positive difference and leave a.
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Leave a decent mark here.
, that, , that, that, that those would belessons that, , or stories that I would,
I would convey in the, in the book.
So, , yeah, not, not the kind of the waythat you want the wake up call to happen.
But, you know, again, challengeshappen all the time and how we respond
to them is, is really where it's at.
So.
Well, I know for sure you are making animpact and a difference and with your
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clients, but also through this book.
And so I want to make sure the listenersknow how to get your book and get in touch
with you because you have the community,you have courses, free resources.
Tell us how to do that.
Sure.
I think the easiest thingis just to go to www.
momentorsllc.
com.
And you have all the blogs,resources, the community there,
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all my socials, , momentorsllc.
Dot com and love to loveto connect with you.
Love to hear from you and join thecommunity or just shoot me a note.
My, my contact information's there.
And, , and again, thank you, Michelle for.
, asking me some questions and dealingwith my long winded answers, as
I mentioned, , in the, in thepre show that, , tends to happen.
I'll get, I'll start going,but, , thanks for tolerating it.
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And thanks for everything that you guysand your team do, and then shining your
light, , on, on the entrepreneurial world.
Appreciate it.
Oh, thank you.
And I'm so excited about it.
And I can't wait to see what else happens.
, as you continue to, , helppeople to be their best self.
So thanks so much, Kevin,appreciate you being on the show.
Thank you, Michelle.
Thanks.
All right, everyone.
That is it for the powerof authority spotlight.
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com, get this book, but not just foryourself, self share with other people,
especially those in that age rangethat Kevin and I were talking about.
You know, I wish I had that kind ofbook at that age and I'm so grateful
that my boys do and others will as well.
So go to momentorsllc.
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Let me introduce you to myguest today, Kevin Wagaman.
He is a business and life coach.
He's a Christian, a loving husband, proudfather, and founder of Momentors LLC.
Kevin created Momentors with a missionof helping people maximize potential and
remove obstacles to live out their dreams.
He started his working career as abusboy at Sawgrass Marriott before going
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on to successful sales and operationsroles in finance and real estate.
He received numerouspromotions over the years.
Rising in the ranks to CEO of BerkshireHathaway Home Services Florida
Network Realty before launching hiscurrent entrepreneurial venture.
Born in the small town of Stewart,Florida, he grew up loving the outdoors
and could often be found fishing,surfing, playing most sports, and
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simply swinging through the mangroves.
As a young adult, he struggled withoverdoing things, eating, drinking,
partying, spending, working.
Yes, you can overdo this amongother self limiting behaviors.
Can't wait to talk about that one, Kevin.
He draws on many of these personalexperiences and the challenges
overcome as a mentor and coach.
He's always driven to helppeople to remove the obstacles
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in their lives, to realize truepotential and higher fulfillment.
He has personally moved from salesstruggles to success, large debt to
financial freedom, poor and good health,aimlessness to purpose, excessiveness to
moderation, bad habits to good habits,mentee to mentor, follower to successful
leader, solo player to family man.
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Kevin and his wife, Jessica, son,Elliot, and daughter, Raelyn, currently
live in Jacksonville, Florida.
And Kevin, I'm so excitedto have you on the show.
Yeah, thanks, Michelle.
I'm really excited to be here andthank you for for what you do and
shining the light and entrepreneursand people doing big things.
I'm glad to be included in thatin that group and to your team of
performance publishing for helpingget the book launched as crucial.
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And I'm so grateful.
So thanks for having me.
Of course.
Well, I'm excited because, well,you're doing so many things.
And by the way, I love your bio becauseyou touch on so many things that I know
for myself and other people listeningcan totally resonate with, right?
We we've all been somewhere, butwe want to be somewhere else.
And so let's start with you.
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I just want to know a little bit moreabout you, about yourself, your family.
So.
Tell us about Kevin.
Yeah, sure.
So, born and raised pretty much, I callthe east coast of Florida my hometown
because as a child, my dad was adeveloper and so we moved around a lot.
And so, I mean, I've lived everywherefrom Miami to Jacksonville and every,
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just about everything in between.
I love the state, love the eastcoast of Florida, , and you know,
didn't, didn't deal with, Disruptionsin life until when I was 10 years
old, my parents got a divorce.
And so that was a little bit traumaticfor my sister and I and and and so
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the moving around a lot continued.
So I think I was at, like,maybe 7 or 8 schools before high
school, even and so moving around,trying to adapt to different
environments and and then, you know.
Moving through, you know, childhoodinto, you know, teenage years, we kind of
settled in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
So started to put down some, someroots here, went to college up in
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North Carolina, Elon University.
And then got into the working world backhere in Jacksonville pretty quickly.
, and, , after graduating from college,got right into a job with Merrill
Lynch here in Jacksonville andstarted my, my corporate journey.
I'll say it's kind of phase one of my,of my experience in the working world.
And while doing that.
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You know, just like everybody elsetrying to figure out, navigate
the real world really startedhaving some, some, , challenges.
And I'll, , I'll give a lotof credit to my, my parents.
I learned tremendously valuablelessons from both of my parents.
My dad was an excellent businessman,taught me a lot about how to navigate the
business world, negotiations, great stuff.
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My mom was one of the most caringpeople that you'll ever meet in life.
And so I kind of,
And so I think that gave me a goodfoundation, but I was also a bit
of a rebellious young man, I guess.
So kind of, , kind of went offand made quite a few mistakes.
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, and you read some of it in the bio.
Just, you know, healthwas not a priority for me.
I was, I was partying too much.
I was aimless.
I was smoking packs of cigarettes a day.
I mean, it was just, I was all over theplace and experiencing some success, you
know in what I was doing I was doing sellI was sale selling and I'm doing okay at
that and and had a great group of friendsand and that was all good, but it was
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a over a period of time that I realizedthat , And through some mentors that kind
of spoke into my life that you know Ireally need to get a bit more intentional
About about where where I want to go overthe long term, as opposed to just kind
of blowing wherever the wind took me, andI think that's kind of the foundation.
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I mean, that's a real short.
So, I mean, eventually got, you know,as far as the career went, got into
real estate, left finance, got intoreal estate for a variety of reasons.
We might, we might get into, youknow, And then grew not only a
sales career in real estate, butalso, , got into the leadership side
of things first as a sales manager.
Then as a vice president, eventually, asyou mentioned, CEO of a large company in
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Jacksonville, so a lot of experience onthe business side, a lot of experience on
the personal development side going from.
Aimlessness and purposelessness andterrible health to, you know, and gosh,
I would nowhere near perfect what Isay, but definitely in a different
area and more intentional aboutwhere I'm taking things these days.
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And so that's where that'skind of the, the overview.
My, I went, I met my wife in 2006.
She's, I'm so fortunate.
She's amazing.
She was a big part.
In addition to my faith,a big part of me kind of.
Moving in the right direction.
She's very helpful inthat, , over a period of time.
We got married in 2013, and thenour first child in 2017, Elliot,
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and then Raylan came along in 2022,and we're getting ready to celebrate
her 3rd birthday in a couple days.
We have 50 people descending on ourhousehold this weekend to do that.
And so a lot of stuff going on rightnow, but just so thankful and blessed
to have this, the family that I do.
Having been able to navigate throughsome challenging times along the way.
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Well, and that's part of why I loveyour story, Kevin, because, you
know, I know I can relate to this.
I know most people can.
I mean, you, your life isgoing in one direction.
You think you have it figured out.
And I was about to ask you,well, what was the catalyst?
What was it that kind of nudged you?
And you said your faith, yourwife, , and also a mentor.
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What?
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
I was, I was just going togive a quick shout out now.
He's he passed away a few years ago.
, but David McWilliams was avery, very big presence in my
life in that early 20s range.
Now, I'm not going to say I metDavid and then snap my fingers
and everything went awesome.
That's not the way it happened.
But.
But I did see in him character howhe lived his life and characteristics
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and his family life and his spirituallife and how he approached work and
how he had this what I perceived as.
Beautiful balance or harmony isprobably the better word in, in
how he lived in, in his integrity.
It just, it just set agreat example for me.
So there were still some, you know,bumps along the road, but that was a
really good initial mentor for me again,outside of my parents that, , that
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helped me in the right direction.
It just goes to show you don't knowhow you're impacting someone until it's
right, you know, he, he, he may or may nothave known the impact he, he had on you.
And so I told him no.
And that's, that's 1 message that Iwould, I would relay is because as I,
as I learned along the way, , to, toappreciate, you know, people that, you
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know, speak into you, , , every time Igot a promotion, every time something
went well, when I got married orwhatever, he, he either got a call from
me or a, or a note of gratitude for me.
And I, and, and I, I, I lethim know, I let him know.
That is so good.
Zig Ziglar had a wall of gratitude.
So all the people throughout hislife, starting with his mother, all.
All the way on through, , you know, bossesand other people who have spoken into him.
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And he never wanted to forget, you know,we're never, we, we are who we are and
we get where we are not on our own.
It's kind of like, he would tell a funnystory about, you know, when you see a
turtle on a fence post, you got to believethey didn't get there on their own.
That's the case, right?
So that's right.
That's right.
And he was the first of a handful.
I mean, I think mentors in life are soimportant and learning lessons along
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the way are so important I had notheard that about Zig Ziglar, but 1
thing that I started doing, and it's alittle morbid, but but it's important
to me is I've had quite a few friendsand family passed away over the years.
And and so when I, whenI started doing was.
Make, keeping a list of who they were andthen what's the most important lesson or
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character trait that they had, that if Ican somehow carry that forward, , would be
a good reminder of that, of that person.
So I, I, I don't like, I don't likethat the list is growing, but I
do feel like it is a way for me toremember and also think back to some
of the great lessons that they taught.
Oh, I love that idea, actually, that,that's such a, I mean, I may borrow that.
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Thank you.
I'll feel free.
Thank you.
We all borrow.
We all, we all borrow, right?
We all share.
Right.
There's no original.
Maybe I heard, maybeI read that somewhere.
I don't know.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
Well, I want to make sure wetalk about your book because
One to Grow On is your new book.
And I, let's, let's tell the audiencemore about what is this book about?
Yeah.
So the, the kind of the beginningof it was, you know, 2020, I think
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I, along with, , You know, mostpeople got really introspective.
We have this new This new virus and andwe really didn't know what was going on.
I don't think anyone had any levelof expertise for a long time And and
about that time also a couple of myfriends Passed away now not from covid
for other reasons and and so and theyall they both had some young kids
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and at the time I had a Three yearold Elliot was three at the time.
And so I just started thinking, youknow, if something happened to me, then,
you know, there are a lot of thingsthat I'd like to pass along to him.
A lot of lessons I learned along theway that I'd like him to be able to,
, you know, relate to or learn from.
And so I just started writing them,writing lessons down about the same time.
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I was doing a training sessionfor, , a group of sales professionals.
, and, , it was, I think it was beforewe actually really started leaving, you
know, leaving the office offices, butsomebody meant, you know, I told a few
stories and gave the lesson and someonecame up to me afterwards and said,
Hey, you're consider writing a book.
I thought, well, I kind of alreadyam, but if there's a way for me
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to expand the scope of this thing.
And, , and then I started thinking, whatif I were to write something to someone
that was struggling the way I was inmy mid 20s that maybe doesn't have that
mentor that maybe doesn't have someonethat that's that's speaking into them.
, and so it became kind of a convergenceof those things and that's that
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was the birth of 1 to grow on.
So it's really just for.
For anybody that hasn't been intentionalabout personal development or thinks,
geez, I'm not, you know, what am Idoing or not sure where to begin?
And that's kind of the initial concept.
So it's it's lessons.
I've I researched it a lot.
I mean, the book, the thing took3 years to write 4 years to write
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and and it also, it's not designedto be like, , And end all be all.
It's called one to grow on.
The idea though is this is a goodstarting point, but then within
the book, there are all kinds ofresources of the different topics.
So if you want to learn more about, youknow, habit and skill development, well,
here's, here's what I went through.
Here's some action steps to take.
And by the way, here's 3.
if you're really, if this resonateswith you, here's 3 really good books.
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That that were influentialinfluential to me that you can go
dive further into these things.
And so that's really the conceptis, you know, helping someone
I, you know, that isn't reallyintentional about personal growth and
development to just start somewhere.
That's, that's the idea to sayis the ideal reader for this.
Is it somebody.
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Maybe in the younger years, like youwere when you were transitioning kind
of, or is it for those of us who havebeen through many seasons and maybe
we're looking, , for our next, but whowould you say would benefit the most?
Yeah, I think, I think theway you said it is perfect.
The, the, it was writtentowards me at age 23 though.
And so if somebody is coming,coming to that time, I mean,
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you got to be ready for it.
Like I think there's a, youknow, there, there's, there, I
believe everybody's reachable,but at different periods of time.
So I think if you're, if you're thinking.
Yeah, you know, and it doesn't matterif you're, you know, 25 or 80, if you're
thinking, geez, I could use a differentoutlook, I could use some different
ideas, maybe a mindset thing, maybe ahabits thing, then it could be for you,
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but really it's, it's, it's the, youknow, coming out of college, you know,
low twenties, mid twenties, that was theidea that the, the, the target market
I had in mind when I, when I wrote it,because those were where I learned a lot
of the lessons that I wanted to pass alongto, , you know, to Elliot in terms of
how to overcome some of those challenges.
I love that because I think youand I talked about this early on,
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but when I wrote my first book,that was exactly my motivation.
I never intended that I wouldshare it with anyone else.
I wrote my first book winning inlife now for my boys who at the time
were seven and five second grade andkindergarten, and now they're your book.
, and shift it to both of thembecause now 25 and one is 20.
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He'll be 22 in March.
And, and so it's almost like, those arethe things that I probably was exposed to
at that age, but maybe I wasn't listening.
And so, and sometimes, especiallyfor our own kids, sometimes they
need to hear it through other people.
Right?
No question.
Yeah.
And by the way, thank you for that.
I appreciate that.
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And and I would love to hear feedback.
I love getting feedbackfrom from all of it.
And, you know, we also do havea mechanism for the feedback.
We turn the book into a course and thecourse actually walks people through.
There's a video.
There's action plans.
There's webinars.
So, for someone that gets into the bookand says, well, I really like this.
This resonates and wants tokind of go a little bit further.
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, and that, and that does have a feedbackloop because then they could say, well,
I tried this and this is what happened.
And this is how I approached it.
And this is what I tweak maybe andthen we just share the, the, , the
wins inside of our LinkedIn community.
So, , I think we'll talk a littlebit about where people can go in a
few minutes, but, , but, , I, I, Ilove hearing back from, from people
that have experienced the book and,you know, whether, whether they had
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a big win from it, or, you know, Hey,I tried this and this didn't work for
me, but I did it this way instead.
I love it.
And I love that you havebeyond the book too.
So you do have all ofthese resources and sure.
And, and then let's talk about those,your coaching, cause you know, your
business, my mentors, you're an executivecoach consultant, you do a lot of
different things beyond just the book.
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, But what challenges do you seeor do you encounter when you're
working with other leaders?
People that are, and it couldbe sales people, but it could
be also business leaders.
Yep.
What are you encountering out there?
Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm sofortunate that the people I get
to work with are, are amazing.
And I, I love them all.
And, and, and most of the time I findthat I don't want it more for them
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than they want it for themselves.
Because every once in a while in myleadership career, sometimes you do,
you want something more for someonethan they want it for themselves.
Most of the people I get to work withright now are pretty, pretty well
motivated and engaged in what they'redoing, but, you know, I've been doing,
I've been coaching people for a lotof years and I generally find areas,
six areas where people get stuck and,and that is Sometimes a challenge to
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help people identify where that is.
And so just to realquickly, , foundational.
So sometimes people will get stuck becausethey haven't really spent time to think
about, you know, what is my purpose?
What is my mission?
And it's, it could change overtime, but right now, what is it?
That I'm really trying to accomplish.
What's my vision for my lifefrom, from, you know, family
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wise to occupation to recreation.
What are some things that I can seemyself doing over a period of time?
And then the other thing I have my clientsdo is think about their principles.
What are some of the values that arenon negotiable for you as you go?
Build this life for yourself.
Because if you have a good set ofprinciples or values, then you have
your filter for decision making, right?
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And some people that, that have a hardtime making decisions one path or the
other, sometimes it's because I haven't,they haven't built that filter yet
as to what's non negotiable for them.
So that's, that's one thingthat we kind of peel back the
onion on the next thing is.
That can be a challenge is mindset oranother way is like your self worth.
I work some people where it's like,you just have to get to the point
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where, you know, you deserve success.
You're putting in the work, you kind ofgetting in your own way because there's
something that we have to figure outthat's block, whether it's a fear thing
or whether it's a worthiness thing.
Let's let's peel back the onion thereand that can be challenging as well.
Then we get into like now we're gettingwe're moving from kind of philosophical.
Now we're getting into like planningand time and energy management.
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And for some people livinga big life is a fear thing.
Some people it's.
I'm they're they're all over theplace with time and energy management.
So we get into focus and we get intominimizing drama and distractions and
then we get into habit development andskills and what you know, if there's
a gap between knowing what to do andactually what to do and actually doing it.
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What is getting in the way there?
And then finally, it's, it's,it's being ready for challenges
because it will get challenging.
And so what's your resilience planand then celebrate the journey.
Not, not just the milestones,not just the accomplishments,
but you know, what are we doing?
What are we doing it for?
If we can't figure out a wayto find joy along the way,
even through the challenges.
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And by the way, This is not, youknow, this is not me preachy.
This is me constantly going through allthese and trying to improve in my own life
and trying to help, you know, and tryingto work as a family unit and in service
to others and clients and, and try to dobetter with this stuff ourselves as well.
So yeah.
And, and, you know, the, the biggestchallenge is self leadership.
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You know, a lot of these things that,that I, I sit down and look someone
in the eye or look someone throughthe zoom and say, You know, hey, let's
identify some things you ought to bedoing and then make a prescription.
I, I look at myself and say, all right,is this, am I living this out myself?
And, and so, so that's a bigchallenge too, but we do it.
So we do it in a, in kind of a unique way.
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So there's different coaching philosophiesand I've kind of combined three.
It's Socratic, it's mentorshipand it's accountability.
And we move, there's fluidity throughthose different areas because.
Sometimes, often, the person I'mcoaching knows the answer, and it's
just a series of questions, andit's better if they come up with it.
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Sometimes they don'tknow the answer, though.
I don't believe the studentalways knows the answer.
Sometimes it's, I've been through it,they really need some advice, and so
that's where the mentorship part comes in.
And then once it's, we've identifiedwhat the thing is, what do I need to add,
what do I need to reduce, whatever itis, then there's an accountability piece.
And so it's just trying tofigure out, customize to each
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individual where they are.
And what they need and that and sometimesI can diagnose that pretty quickly
and sometimes it takes me a while.
Some people are hard to read.
And so that we get into like, personalityassessments and that type of stuff
and when necessary, but it's it'sso challenging in 1 respect because.
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I'm not in it just to, you know,for, for the revenue piece of it.
I, I, I am serious about theoutcomes for the people I work with.
And so, so we, you know, we really,we really put together a plan that
not only they understand why behindit, but they are, there's clarity on.
The what and and what theexpectations are each week was long.
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That was a long answer now.
It's just about to say, though,I can feel your passion, though.
I mean, yes, you are doing this.
It is a business, but I can feel Ican feel it that this is something
more than that for you, you know, andto be able to there is nothing better
than to see someone's life changed asa result of something that, you know,
whether you asked a question to helpthem to figure it out on their own
or whether you gave him direction.
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I like that.
You have all 3 aspects of your coaching.
Good.
, I've been a coach, and I've been inthe, the coachee seat, and sometimes
I don't want you to just ask me thequestion, sometimes I want you to tell
me what to do, and sometimes you don'thold me accountable and say, guess what?
You, you, you, you dropped the ball.
You said you would do it, and you didn't.
Let's, let's fix it.
So I love your approach, but I can seeit comes from passion more than anything.
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Yeah, it, it, it does.
I, I care a lot.
And, , I really enjoy, I really enjoy the,, the outcomes when, and, and by the way, at
the same time, not taking credit for it.
You know, it's, it's, you're the one, youknow, it's, oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Oh, this has been life changing.
You're the one doing the work.
You know, the, the real value in coachingis not the hour that we're together.
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It's everything in betweenuntil the next hour.
That's where you'redoing the amazing work.
And so I try to makesure my people know that.
I love that you said that becauseso many times I'll get that same
thing, you know, thank you can doit with no, no, no, you did it.
You broke the book.
You did the hard work.
You, you know, so it'sa team effort there.
1 thing I have to just also pointout before we move on is, , helping
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them to celebrate the successesversus just the accomplishment.
, and, and, and the journey.
And I learned that early in life.
Somebody had suggested that to me.
In fact, they had suggested keeping trackof, , doing, I had a success journal
and success did not mean accomplishment.
And it meant maybe I completedall my tasks in a day, or maybe
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I made someone smile or maybe,and you keep it in this journal.
And if you're a high achiever, likemost people who you're probably
working with is when you're havingthose down days and you're feeling.
I have, I'm just, I've failed.
I'm so behind schedule.
I haven't done anything is you goback and look, you're like, you
know what it's, it's, it's alla journey and I am successful.
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It doesn't mean I'm, I'm justdoing and doing and doing.
And I know if people, I can fallin the trap of just accomplishment.
And not stopping and realizing.
So I like that you really helpyour, , the people that you're working
with to, to appreciate the journey.
That's yeah.
Thank you.
And then that I love your idea.
And, and it certainly is, that'sa challenge for all of us, myself.
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Myself included.
But I love that.
And you know, if I get up and Iexercise in the morning, one of
the chapters in the book talksabout starting and ending the day.
Well, I believe if you start and end theday, well, then a lot of the stuff in
between that may be causing friction orissues can starts to starts to wrap up.
And if I get up in the morningand I exercise, it's the exercise
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that should be celebrated.
Not whether or not I lost fivepounds at the end of the month.
It's the actual act of the exercisethat should be implemented.
And so that's where the wins happen.
Same thing with anything elsethat you're doing to develop a
business or to, to, you know, focuson your family life or whatever.
It's the, I spent 30 meaningfulminutes with my child today
uninterrupted, no devices, no whatever.
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That's that's the stuffthat I'm talking about.
And so keeping a journal of it, Ithink, makes a lot of sense because,
you know, the tough days will thedark clouds will form the tough days
will come and to be able to havesomething to look back on and do that.
One other journaling idea is.
Is if this is a, this is personal to mebecause I used to do this and I broke the
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habit when something didn't go my way, , Iwas in a presentation that didn't go great
or I didn't get the sale or whatever itwas, the employee left, they quit, I used
to ruminate and I would just play it backover and over and over again in my mind.
And eventually I realized thatthat's just feeding the non
conscious brain with negativity.
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So I started journaling what happened.
Yeah.
What went wrong or what excuse me whatI did that I don't think or what I did
that was okay or good and then whatwould I do differently next time and
doing that help me put it to bed and takethe lesson from it and not continue to
screw myself up about it just anotheryou when you mentioned journaling I
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thought that I would share that as wellbecause that's been helpful for me.
Yeah.
And, and I love, soyou're a constant learner.
It sounds like, like I, and Ihave a passion for this as well.
So you and I, I think could talkforever about, but I do want to know.
So you, the book has been out fora little while and you're, you're
continuing to do new things on it.
And so there's so much good content inthe book already, but is there anything
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that's happened since you wrote the book?
Any new thoughts or new, , thingsthat you've learned personally,
since you're constantly learning?
Yeah.
You know, the, yeah.
What I, I didn't spend a lot of timeon in the book, I've spent more time
researching recently and I'm not a doctor,but I've been reading, like, Daniel Amen
comes to mind a lot about brain health.
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And so there's a lot of work on mindsetand worthiness and that's all amazing.
His, his thesis is if you don't havea healthy brain, a lot of that stuff.
It's either more difficult or itdoesn't work at all and so I've
been really looking into, you know,and he's got a couple books, change
your brain, change your life.
And I think the otherone's called bright minds.
And so that's where I'm going now.
And interestingly enough, recently,I found myself in the emergency room
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because I went blurry in my left eye.
And and, , and I know that's not good.
And so that could be really bad.
And I won't make it a dramatic story.
Everything's everything's fine.
It wasn't, you know, what goesoff in your mind is like, oh,
my gosh, I'm having a stroke.
And and so, so I did all the thingsand, you know, go into the hospital
and it's like, it's so visceral, butsurreal at the same time, they look at
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me and they get on the microphone in theemergency room and they're like, we have
a, we have a stroke alert and I'm like.
Is this really happening?
And, and so next thing I know,I'm, you know, in the CT machine
and they're doing all thesetests and the MRI and everything.
And, and so the learning lesson is.
Got to take care of your brain becausethere were a lot of years that I did not.
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And so if there is, if, if, if I am astroke candidate, it's not for what I'm
doing now, it's for what I did eight yearsago, 10 years ago, smoking cigarettes,
drinking too much, that type of stuff.
So that's, that's 1 learning lesson.
If I could go put that a little bitmore in the book about, you know,
trying to reach the 20 somethingsor 30 somethings about earlier than
later, start getting serious aboutthat stuff, then then that's 1 thing.
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And who knows?
Maybe there's a future.
Future book, but, , but that's 1 thing.
And the other thing is, you know, thethings I were praying for while I was
in those machines did not have to dowith making more money or anything
other than, you know, family, I wantmore time with my family, my friends.
I want to make a bigger difference.
You know, I want to make sure I makea positive difference and leave a.
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Leave a decent mark here.
, that, , that, that, that those would belessons that, , or stories that I would,
I would convey in the, in the book.
So, , yeah, not, not the kind of the waythat you want the wake up call to happen.
But, you know, again, challengeshappen all the time and how we respond
to them is, is really where it's at.
So.
Well, I know for sure you are making animpact and a difference and with your
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clients, but also through this book.
And so I want to make sure the listenersknow how to get your book and get in touch
with you because you have the community,you have courses, free resources.
Tell us how to do that.
Sure.
I think the easiest thingis just to go to www.
momentorsllc.
com.
And you have all the blogs,resources, the community there,
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all my socials, , momentorsllc.
Dot com and love to loveto connect with you.
Love to hear from you and join thecommunity or just shoot me a note.
My, my contact information's there.
And, , and again, thank you, Michelle for.
, asking me some questions and dealingwith my long winded answers, as
I mentioned, , in the, in thepre show that, , tends to happen.
I'll get, I'll start going,but, , thanks for tolerating it.
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And thanks for everything that you guysand your team do, and then shining your
light, , on, on the entrepreneurial world.
Appreciate it.
Oh, thank you.
And I'm so excited about it.
And I can't wait to see what else happens.
, as you continue to, , helppeople to be their best self.
So thanks so much, Kevin,appreciate you being on the show.
Thank you, Michelle.
Thanks.
All right, everyone.
That is it for the powerof authority spotlight.
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I really want you togo to my mentors, LLC.
com, get this book, but not just foryourself, self share with other people,
especially those in that age rangethat Kevin and I were talking about.
You know, I wish I had that kind ofbook at that age and I'm so grateful
that my boys do and others will as well.
So go to momentorsllc.
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com and we will see you next timeon the Power of Authority Spotlight.
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