You Can Overcome Anything: Ep 294 - Fear of Starting my Own Business – Dean Barta - You Can Overcome Anything! Podcast Show

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Are you looking for more out ofyour life? Do you need ideas and
how to start new businesses and howto move forward in your own personal life?
Well, guess what you have cometo a right radio show and you
Can Overcome Anything podcast show. Youwill learning here from many people from all

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the mind shifts they had to overcometo become who they are today. On
top, you will get a chanceto connect and see how you can overcome
anything by networking and learning about yournext move through this radio show. I

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present to you our great speakers atyou Can Overcome Anything Podcast Show with your
host Caesar. Is you know andwelcome back to another episode of You Can
Recome Anything Podcast Show. It isour host Caesar Espino and today my guest

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is a founder, CEO and aguide of bard of Business Group based in
Helena, Montana in Denver Corral.Through his thirty five years of business experience,
he had learned that most businesses aregreat at their craft, but not
great at the financial back of thehouse activities. He and his team of
professionals guide business owners in making thebest decisions to grow their organizations so they

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can focus on doing what they lovein their business. They serve clients through
the United States. He takes pridein being a certified while wilderness first responder
for the fast twenty three years.He wants golf a one hole in one
immediately after a twenty one mile mountainbike ride and touch climbing Devil's Tower and
his securious outdoor adventure. He isa among biker, tell him is here

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and hiker. His very personal passionis sharing life's adventures with his wife and
their dog. It is my pleasureto uh introduce to you, didn't bark
hey Dean, How are you doingwell? Caesar? Thank you very much
for having me on and really excitedabout it. I mean the kind of

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high quality folks that you interview andwhat you're you know, giving back,
it's really highly valuable to me,I'm sure for many many others as well.
No, definitely, thank you forbeing here. I always like to
start with because you know, again, people to this time, you know,
they they've gone through a lot ofdifferent challenges and they're definitely in a

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different place. Except I believe thathe didn't start it there. So I
would like to kind of go backa little bit about and learn a little
bit about their background. So tellme a little bit about your upbringing and
where you're original from and how wasthat for you. Yeah, I originally
I grew up on a farm ranchin Montana, so sixteen hundred acres so
which sounds like a big amount,but that's pretty small actually in Montana,

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where there are apartment ranches up tenthousand acres, et cetera. And my
dad actually was born on the farm, so you know, it goes way
back over one hundred years, andyou know, really learned that blue collar
work ethic that has served me inwhite collar and and you know, farming

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and ranching was not part of whatyou know, I desired to do at
the time. I have a greatappreciation for it and really had an opportunity
to work in the resort business,and with my accounting skills and so went
and worked at you know, alot of the major type of resorts,
you know, summer resorts in theGlacier National Park, Sun Valley, Idaho

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Vale Resorts in Colorado. Spent thirtyyears in Colorado, of which eleven of
those I was a general manager ofan adventure travel company and so really in
a way, it kind of wentfrom seasonal business to seasonal business even though
I was a full time you know. Wait and then you know, started
my own travel company, but alwayshad a background in accounting and business.

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And then in twenty fourteen started mybookie being accounting consulting company. And then
really is it's been around for tenyears. For ten years, first on
a part time basis, but thenit's been full time for many years now.

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So and you know, it's avirtual business. So we we serve
you know, people from coast tocoast, and my team is located you
know, throughout the nation, andand yeah, we're you know, I
take a lot of experiences from myoutdoor experiences as and apply you know with

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small business owners, whatever industry thatmight be nonprofits and you know, trade
services, et cetera. So yeah, I love that. Let me ask
you this, at what point inlife did you kind of discover that accounting
was your background? Right? Imean again growing up in the farm or

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with the family at the farm,right. I would say that a lot
of people think that's kind of you'regonna do something related to that, right,
and just kind of stick with withthat trade where did you get your
interest on one kind of being anentrepreneur and to getting the idea of being
an accountant. Well, you know, on the accounting side, it always

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just came really easy to me.So even in college, I fell into
tutoring people in a county because Iwas able to explain it back to people
in a way that wasn't about debitsand credits and a cruel and a parole
and all the other terminology and accountI mean and uh and and really it's
just that was always that kind ofbaseline skill that I could do anywhere.

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You know, I mean right downtoday you always need to balance your check
book right or your second acap andand so in fact, that that's the
bunny as I used to have whenI was young in my career. I'd
have a gal that a coworker.She would actually like iron my shirts and
pants and I would balance her checkbook because you know, and I was

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like, well that's a you knowshe you know, she was skilled at
that and you know I wasn't atthat time. And uh so it was
so it's just one of those thingsthat I just fell into. It just
was a natural skill. And andyou know, having the background from you
know, my my rural background isyou know, I've you know, I

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could have conversations from you know,farmers or ranchers to investment makers and uh
and so it's really a down toearth kind of community and and really coming
to common ground with people, youknow, when you have conversations with them.
And as as I mentioned, whenI meet people face to face,

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I said, that's that's my Facebook. You know, It's like I I
love that, you know, II you know, conversations with folks.
So yeah, no, that's awesome. And so so that that that's something
that you you know, kind offall into it, you know, just
naturally. Right. So then youwent to school and study accounting. Uh
yeah, I actually had a businessdegree and uh and and yeah, part

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of the major of course was itwas accounting. And then I I served
under some very sharp CPAs that werefinancial controllers CFOs, and you know,
learned a lot from them and fromother business owners that I worked under and
organizations you know, I worked foras big of a company is available resorts

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in the outdoor industry, and youknow, you know, pick up skills
like any of us, we pickup skills everywhere we work. And and
and then you know, it cameto a point where it was like,
you know, it's you know,there's always something internally that were was drawing
me into the next, if youwill adventure. And you know, some

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people are fine working for the samecompany for thirty years and and there's nothing
wrong with that, you know,but mine was like, hey, there's
there's a there's something inside of methat's that's yearning to experience something else and
keep stretching my boundaries and all ofthat, and that's when, you know,
it makes life exciting. So yeah, no, that's awesome. No,

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that's good. And so then youdecided to kind of, you know,
not only work with some of youknow, working in some of those
firms, open up your own business. And now you're doing that as a
practice and really helping the business.So tell me more about that. How
did you decided to get out ofthe uh let's call it the nine to
five and adventuring too your own yourown business and why what was the whole

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recent behind it? Well, youknow, really after like I was a
general manager of an adventure travel companyfor eleven years, so I mean I
knew my craft really really well,and and you know, after a while,
is you know, I was runningthe business. We had an ownership

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change, and and I was theone that driving everything forward. And you
know, an employee can only driveit as far as the owner or whoever,
you know, the powers that be. And as I told the business
owner, because I was like adriving force of the company, is I
said, I can't. I can'tdrive the car from the back seat,

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meaning as an employee, as anowner, your responsibility is driving the mission
forward of the company, you know, and and and being you know,
one of the motivating factors. Andso it became where, you know,
I was really kind of in away, handcuffed. I was just bound
by his his you know, ifhis motivation was here and I was up

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here, I could never get pasthis level because and and and and and
he wouldn't sell the company to me. So uh so I was like,
well, once again, I justdon't want to be bound you know,
by didn't want to be bound byyou know, those kind of restrictions.
So I said, you know,the next leap is to own my own

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business. And like I said,if it's it started with a travel company,
but I was always doing accounting workalong with it too on the side
and all that, and that goesback twenty plus years because once again I
had a skill that and and so. But you know the hardest part was

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making that leap from a you know, W two employee into you know,
being a business owner, because youknow, as being a business owner,
there's a whole other set of challengesand a whole other and and sometimes the
worst job, you know, theworst boss you can have is yourself.
Yeah, right, you know,And that's actually something interesting that you mentioned.

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You know, one is taking thatleap of faith and and just doing
that that action of living your nineto five and becoming your own boss.
When when you know doing that andwhether you're prepared enough for that, it's
scary, right, it's always scaryfor you to do that. What will
some lessons learned through that journey foryou doing that leap and saying, Okay,

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I'm leaving this, you know,this job that you know to an
extent, maybe we'll call secure securea secure job, and or you know,
you have benefits in all this stuff. And then now you're going into
your own business and trying to buildfrom the from the ground up. Tell
me some of the challenges and lessonslearned there. Yeah. Well, you
know, actually when I was inthe process of making that decision, I

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what was parallel going on at thetime. I was guiding a trip out
uh in South Dakota, and myco guide and I decided in addition to
the trip, we would climb Devil'sTower. So if anybody who's you know,
heard of Devil's Tower in northeastern Wyoming, it was in the movie Close
Encounters of the Third Kind. Itis this you know, volcanic you know,

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you know, quite you know,massive monument. And so we and
then that was the most challenging climbingthat I've ever done before, even though
i'm you know, I'm background insearch and rescue and all that. Yeah,
and uh so I tell the storybecause it's it's very similar to the
starting a business. We were ontop, we got to the top.

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Well, the challenge for a lotof people is the repelling off of a
tower that's you know, seven hundredand fifty feet off the deck. And
so my climate partner, who wasvery accomplished, he repelled down, and
my mind was just racing, likeas close to an anxiety attack as I

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can ever imagine. And and Iwas like, oh, I don't know
if I could do this, youknow, and probably resonate with anybody who's
started a business before, you know, all the doubt that it comes up.
And so he got secured to thenext blot point and he's like,

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okay, I'm ready, and Iwas like, okay, I got to
do this, you know, hookedin you know, into my bullet device
and all that took some breaths andstuff like that. And you know,
part of repelling, if you've everyou know, rock climbed to repel before,
is the key on repelling is leaningback, like basically leaning into the
fear. Okay, and and reallythe the key because you know, you

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know, shaking ease, the wholeworks happening. But the key was just
breathing and just focusing on my sixfeet of world. Okay, not the
seven hundred and fifty, but youknow, being in the present of that
six feet at a time. Sothat's how I experienced it. And so

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that really translated into having a business. And here are the key components I've
learned. Is one, having supportfrom other people, you know, my
climbing partner. I think most businessowners they go into it thinking Okay,
I have this vision and all that, and they do not reach out with
enough support. Okay, if you'vegot you know, this is a team

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effort. You know the word selfmade, you know whatever, business owner.
No, it's never self. Imean it's you're certainly your motivation,
but there's always someone that's propping youup or encouraging you to or maybe kicking
you in the boat or whatever itmight be. So that's one is you
know, having support around you.And I have a friend of mine that

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she started a travel company and ifyou would compare our background in ad mentor
travel and all that, you wouldthink, oh, Deane, you're going
to be you know, you know, successful, just because your background she
had, you know, let's saynot you know, as a resume like
mine. She had a lot ofgood experience, but she had better and

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more support and she's still she hasa thriving student travel business and cans Australia
and it continues to grow and thriveand all that. And so having the
support of the team is really reallycrucial. And the other part is you
know, you you you know,don't get too caught up in the fear

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of the future. It's just likeHey, what can I focus on now?
What can I what do I havecontrol of today? What do what?
You know? And you still wantto plan, you know, plan
is very very important, and youknow, just stretch, you know,
stretch goals and all that, butreally just being able to like, hey,
what do I have control today?Or let's focus on that person or

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that client today, you know,what do that? What does that client
need today? And you know,being responsive to that and uh, you
know, I think those are thetwo main things. Is just staying staying
focused and uh and having a goodteam around you. I love that and
and the idea of just knowing thosetwo elements. I think they're huge.

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And I think part of that isagain when we're looking at, you know,
what kind of support system we have, what are the people that are
around us that are helping us?Right? I believe that's huge and and
it kind of reminds me of ofJim Ron talking about the average five,
right, and so kind of havingthat average five for the people that are
really there to edify you and helpyou through through the journey, unnecessarily competing

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with you, more so helping youeven if if they're in a different place.
And then I also like the ideaof focusing on today. And one
of the things that I that I'vealways talked about, and I say this
a lot, is that we're heretoday and we're gone tomorrow. Right.
We don't never know, We neverknow what there's going to be that that
time, and whether it's in businessor in personal life. While you said,

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you're right, we got to thinkabout you know, yeah, in
in six months or in a year, I want to plan the strip,
or I want to go you knowhere or there. You know, it's
good to do that. Yet it'sjust a sense of planning, not a
sense of worrying about what's going tohappen in the near future. And we
got to focus on really this moment, this second, right, which is

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what counts. And I believe thatthe choices and the decisions that we make
today, whether in business or inyour personal life, will determine the quality
of life or business they're going tohave in the future. Right, And
so we want to stay focused withthat. The second thing you mentioned,
uh in terms of kind of leavingyour job and venturing into your own business,

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which I think is huge and Iwant to I want to see if
you can give me an advice interms of that is you said that you
were really good at what you weredoing. You know, you're the one
running kind of like the show,and you know probably there will say a
sense of not so much being appreciatedfor your efforts and your work or whatever
might have been going on with thecompany right or the jobs you had.

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I believe that a lot of peopleare stuck with that, and a lot
of people are the ones that areprobably moving that company or that department or
that business or whatever that might be. And there might be the ones that
are kind of holding it together andalso moving forward. Yet the challenge is
that they still don't believe deep downthat they're good enough to say, you
know what, let me let metake this knowledge, let me take what

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I know. I know that I'mdoing a good job. I know I'm
driving this company or this department orthis whatever division. Let me take them
and instead of going to apply thisat a different company and find a better
job, what about if I justsay this and do my own stuff,
do my own business right. AndI think that's the challenge. So we'll
be an advice for you for someonethat is in that place that they know

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they're running it and instead of goingand looking for a better jump, what
am I just jump? Take theleap and get to your own business.
Yeah, you know I gotta gogo back and forth with this, Susar
is uh, because you know there'slike, hey, you know, jump
and then you'll build the wing thisway, strength of the wings on the

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way down. Yeah, and youalso like you know, hit the rocks,
and there's and and some people cancan do that. And you know,
there is a lot of merit insaying, hey, you know I'm
good at this, I'm doing Iknow what I'm doing at this company.
Hey, let's do it as aside gig. Okay. And and I
don't know if it was Jim Rohnor someone is is, hey, when

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your side gig gets bigger than whator you know, I think it might
be like seventy five percent of whatyour your current, then then make the
leap, because you know, there'sthere's the realities of hey, you know,
if you have you know, kids, and there's health insurance and all
this other stuff that are you know, you're doing the responsible thing for your

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family, you know, so andthen then you're like okay, or maybe
it just becomes hey, that's that'sa side gig and you're you know,
you're you're making sixty percent more thanwhat you're in and or it might be
something even creative. Maybe you're youknow, you compose music or something like
that that you know, this jobis very technical and you know, you

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know, between the years, buthey, my side gig is is what
really gets my creative juice is going. And so you can kind of if
you will have in the best world, but you're not caught in like,
hey, this is all I have. But so there's a couple of things,
you know, you know I've doneI've leapt off the thing and all

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that, and you know, andbeen bruised and battered and all that kind
of stuff too. And guess what, when you do jump, it's like
that's a high commitment level, youknow. So but when I did do
that, I was you know,I was you know, I was single,
and you know, you know,I didn't have the responsibilities of you
know, caring for a family andall that other stuff. So so each

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person has to kind of take alook at what's their level of risk that
they're they're willing to take. Andyou know, just like your family,
you know, just like you youknow, you might desire you know,
oh this is okay. I feelcomfortable with the risk. But you know
maybe your wife or your kids aren'tyou know, happy with not having insurance
or you know, or you know, having to cut back on the budget.

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So you know, every everybody's youknow, like I said, you
know, your family's part of yourteam too, right, you know,
so you got to they have tobe buy in because you want them to
be sporting you and not being youknow, hey, no, no,
no, don't do that. Youknow, and you know some family members
do hould you back, and youhave to kind of get some different opinions
to get you know, get someyou know the you know the your top

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five, you know, your averagefive, and that's very valuable. So
yeah, no, that's that's that'shuge. Uh talk about you know obviously
you grew up in a farm,so I take that that's the word.
The whole idea of doing all theseactivities, you know, other activities came
from because you do a lot,you know, from from climbing up mountains

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to bike riding, all these differentthings. Right, tell me about what
does that do to you? Imean there's this, this saying that we
got to be more in tune withnature, we got to be able to
go out and more. You know, I think there's there's a deeper meaning,
and I guess from trying to getto at least from your perspective,
I want to get that from you, that is, if it applies to

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you or other people that I've talkedto, there's a deeper meaning in doing
those things, in connecting with nature, in really you know, stepping away
from from your regular whatever it isthat you have going on and finding yourself.
Right, that's self soothing. Tellme more about that. Well,
I'm reminded of a quote my momactually gave me one time. It was

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from uh Ralph wall Emerson is basicallylive at the pace of nature. Her
secret is patience and and you knownature and nature doesn't rush from winter to
summer, right, there's a transitioninto spring, and there's a transition into

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from summer to fall to winter.And you know, being out in nature,
and anybody who has an appreciation fornature knows that. You know,
whether you're in a driving rainstorm orsnowstorm, or you're just in a sunny
meadow and a mountain, you know, near a mountain stream, you're at

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the see of the pace of whatthe nature is. Right, you say,
you might as well just be patientweather right, and and and and
and it forces you to be inthe moment and and so you know,
growing up, you know, I, yeah, I have the advantage of
you know, being you know,a mile and a half between yard lights.
That's how dark it is out inural rural bot data. So uh

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where you know, seeing the northernlights and uh you know, you know,
you know, seeing the milky weeway, you know, unobstructed by
you know, city lights, andyou know the there's a there is you
know, and some people are moreconnected than others, you know. You
know, it's extremely important for meto be out in nature. I have.

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Well today it just happened to beis I Today is day two thousand
and one hundred of me meditating.It's twenty one hundred days straight. But
I had to create it my way. I it's twenty one hundred days meditating
outdoors. So in Montana it canbe thirty five below winter conditions. I'm

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outside meditating, you know, andbecause there's you know, caes are you
know, you're you're in La sothe weather's always really pretty nice there.
But you know there's no bad weather, just bad clothing. Yeah, I
love it. So you know,you can you know, transfer that into
business too. It's like there's nobad conditions, just how you approach it,

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how you prepare for it. Andso because I had tried meditation several
times in the quiet room and youknow, all of that, and it
never really resonated until I started meditatingoutdoors and then you know, feeling the
breeze across my face, hearing youknow, the blackbirds or the different you
know, and you know, thesmell and and all that. You know,

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the the you know, the streamnearby or whatever. And but that's
that re energizes me. And evenwhen I was in the travel industry,
we had a lot of people thatwere it tech people all that. So
here they're working, let's say,in an artificial environment all the time,

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but they were some of the mostenthusiastic people in the outdoors because I think
as the more we have technology,which is useful in our our lives,
but the more there is a needto be in the outdoors because it's an
artificial environment being versus the pure nature. And we saw it during COVID,

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right, you know, we'll getthe populatory park parks and you know,
blocking off streets and have an openspace. People wanted to be outside because
it was more you know, thatwas you know, their connection. And
you know, traveling street exploded,you know when when people could you know
be out traveling. So so that'swhere you know, it's just I think

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it's I think it's necessary. Ithink it's just imperative because we're we're part
of the natural environment and you know, just and that could be in a
park, that could be in abotannic gardens, it could be but it
helps, you know. So that'sthat's my take on it. And you
know I've had you know, plentyof people who traveled with me before they're

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like, would would agree, Sono, definitely, And and I think
there's an element that we've you know, unfortunately, I would say the new
generation or or you know, upcominggeneration. There's a there's engagement excuse me
from from you know going on intonature. And that's this engagement of what
we used to do or people didin the past, right because of technology

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and again definitely service and there's alot of great elements of that in is
huge, except that where I thinkwe're also missing out on a lot of
opportunities to be more in tune withnature and or discover those in a different
way. Right, Definitely, Ithink people tend to say more indoors or
going outdoors and doing things like that, at least more more so than your

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generation for sure. Yeah, Andand I know, you know, people
can have comments about, oh,you know, my kids grew up with
screens and all this other stuff.And I've seen transitions that you know,
kids that you know, always lookingat a screen, but if they don't
have coverage, you know, sellcoverage or whatever, and you get them
away from their screens, they transitionpretty quickly. I mean appreciate them.

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They're like, wow, look atthis. And you know, so I
think, you know, you know, kids of any you know, any
age, they can transition pretty quickly. So I don't like pitcheon holding well,
this generation is all about technology.You know, that's just what they
grew up with. I mean,I grew up with black and white TV
and turning the channel. You know, there were no root control, so
you know, and because because onceagain, getting out in nature, that's

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that's just part of us. Andsince we were born, Okay, So
that's why I think it's an easytransition of you know, kids or even
adults. It's like, wow,you know, it's it's really it's fascinating
to me still and it's very interesting, and I just I find a lot
of value in it. Yeah,I love that. I'm interested on on

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on What do you have in thebackground the I don't know what you call
it. I know that that isthe peace, happiness, urge, love,
tranquility, and wisdom, right,yeah, tell me of that,
because that's that's that's awesome. Ilove them and and I think that you
know, not only that, Imean, you know, just the words
and and the meaning behind that.What did that come about? I mean
that the fact that you actually,well here's how this comes about. It

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is one you know, since Iwas in the travel industry. The map
is like, you know, I'mnot a weather man, but you know,
I could look at every man.I'm interested in all parts of the
world and actually the flags. Mymy wife is a master reiki educator,
so you know, and people reikiit's the you know, from Japan originally,
and so in our other office,in my office, she had these

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hung up and She said, oh, I could take those down, and
I said, no, I reallylove it because this is also a reminder
for me. So this is youknow, it was, you know,
just a good reminder about you know, hey, if we're living each one
of these, you know, peace, happiness, courage, love, tranquility,
wisdom every day. So it's it'sso I keep it up and I

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get more, you know, whetherI'm on a meeting with a client or
a podcast or whatever, people willtalk about that like and I said,
I love them I because it's it'sjust a nice little reminder and that you
know, how I live my lifeand conduct myself with folks, and and
uh and maybe it rubs off withfrom you know, to other people as

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well. Yeah, and and andand that's good and and again I think
living by those principles and and andannoying that you're doing that. I think
it also allows for that person,you know, like maybe that client or
who we were talking to, like, man, I really wanted the business
with this person, you know,I like what he has going on,
which I think is huge. Solet's talk about that. Let's talk about
your business. Who are your clientsor normally who can work with you what

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kind of clients do you work with? The you know, we have about
about thirty percent of our clients arenonprofits and uh and you know, you
know, their mission driven organizations.A lot of them have a focus that
are geared in the outdoor industry.And and but the common theme, whether
they're a nonprofit or for profit isthey are businesses that are moving and shaken.

(31:51):
You know, they're they're on themove, they're the the owners are
heavily engaged with, you know,their operation, and you know they need
need that assistance because I've yet tomeet a business owner that their favorite activity
is doing the bookkeeping or the accountingor all that. They see the value
of having those that reporting, ofcourse, but that's not their favorite activity.

(32:15):
So I'll use a sports you knowterminology. I said, you know,
having your financial reports are really thescore of the game, right you
know. And you know your inkupstatement is the win loss record for the
season, right you know? Andthe balance sheet though, is that's the

(32:36):
the franchise record, right and soAnd imagine going to a football game and
you saw it, you enjoyed it, but you never knew the score of
the game. And that's what it'slike not knowing your financials and all that.
So we really take you know,to take a page out of my
background guiding people on the trails aswe were guide entrepreneurs through the adventures of

(33:01):
business because you know, as youknow, businesses, that's a whole other
you know, adventure right there.And you know, we provide that that
skill sets so that you know,their finances should be the least of their
worries, you know, because theyknow where they're at. They've got quality
people that will you know, givethem the reporting they need, timely,

(33:24):
accurate, being responsive, you know, very very important. And but yeah,
definitely business owners that are, hey, they want to get from that
you know, one point two milliondollar company to three million dollar company in
the next couple of years. Andand we will only work with small businesses.
They're sub fifty employees and you know, may not have a full time

(33:50):
financial controller or need that strategic helpwhen it comes to you know, CFO
that and I have, you know, I choose my team very you know,
I'm very particular. The the averageage average experience on my team is
well at least thirty years, andso I've got a lot of folks that

(34:15):
are former controllers CFO that are intheir fifties and sixties that so or as
they'd say in Montana, it's notour first rodeo. So we were able
to step into you know, let'ssay trade service businesses, construction businesses,
HVAC companies that you know, they'regood at their craft, that they're not

(34:39):
good at the back of the houseor they need to be better. And
I think one of the things thatwe stand apart besides the the experience,
is we take an emotional investment inthat organization, whether it's a nonprofit or
you know, we care about themsucceeding. And and most people would probably

(35:01):
not think, you know, accountingpeople are you know the worm, it
fuzzy and and all that. Butyou know, and that em andy is
right for me because you know,when I take a person on as a
client, as I tell them,I said, hey, I'm I'm interviewing
you as a client as much asyou're interviewing me, because this is you
know, we're a team here,and and you know there's sometimes a client

(35:25):
I've got to be that team memberthat's kicking them in the butt and say
no, you know, let's notdo this let's let's go this direction because
here's what we see coming down theroad. And so yeah, those are
our you know, ideal clients thatyou know, we love working with them.
And we have clients that have beenwith us for a long time and

(35:47):
and you know, because because wereally care what's going on with If people
wanted to find out more about,you know, your services or connect with
you, can they find you.Yeah, we're at barta Businessgroup dot com.
And we have the phone numbers thatyou can locate us out out of

(36:09):
Colorado or Montana and you know,just you know, you can send it.
Actually you can request a call whichsays, hey, here's what I'm
available, Please give us a call. I just had a call, you
know, last week about a personand I was able to you know,
they say, hey, call mebetween two and four and here's what here's
the issues that I'm having and andyou know, it's it's a conversation about

(36:35):
hey, where are they at intheir business? Where do they want to
go and what are the support theyneed? But ah, barta Businessgroup dot
com And from there you can sendan email call us. And if there's
one thing that we're super about isbeing responsive or I use a page out
of nature. I said, it'snot the it's not the big that eat

(36:59):
the smallest the fast, they eatthe slow. So yeah, yeah,
I love that. So yeah,okay, good good. So obviously we
talked about you know, you goingon to nature. We talked about you
know, you meditating. What otherthings do you do on a day to
day basis, if any to kindof help you stay in a positive mindset?

(37:22):
Well, yeah, I start myday out with you know, working
out, meditation, and then reallyone of the things I do is stay
away from too much social media,I mean, and less news all that
kind of stuff. And and butyou know, getting out. You know,

(37:43):
we have a you know, alovely dog that I call you know,
her name is Biju, and she'smy director of health and wellness.
So she literally will come by atabout three thirty four o'clock but you know,
ball in my lap and say,okay, it's time to get away
from the computer. Yea. Soshe's part of my support team along with
my you know, lovely wife too. You know, she's like so,

(38:05):
you know, really getting out innature. And sometimes that's you know,
a one hour walk. Sometimes it'sa bike ride. And we're out whether
it's you know, six inches ofsnow or if there's you know, if
it's sunny weather. So but that'show I reconnect because I'm a very compartmentalized,
like I'm focused, you know,I'm a single tax or tasker,

(38:28):
I say, you know, Isaid, when I have a conversation with
people, you have my undivided attention. I'm not checking emails, I'm not
checking my phone, and but Ido this and then I focus on the
next person. And once again,that's just staying in the present, but
definitely getting out in nature and Ilive. You know, one of the
reasons we moved to Helena, Montanawas, Hey, I'm thirty minutes from

(38:51):
a ski area. We have trailsyou know, you know, very close
by, and we just wanted tobe you know, closer to nature and
and be around you know, lesspeople, and you know, with the
magic of the fast Internet, wecan be anywhere in the world. Yeah,
for sure, So I love that. That's good. Dean. My
last question for you is for thepeople that are watching us or listening to

(39:13):
us, if they're going through anychallenge, whatever challenge that might be,
what is one thing that you cansay to them so they can start overcoming
that challenge. Reach out for help. And I know from a business owner
standpoint, because all you have todo is reach if you're a business,
current business owner, you're thinking aboutbeing a business owner, reach out to

(39:34):
someone who's been in business for awhile, because I can't think of one
business owner who wouldn't want to helpyou because they understand the pain is suffering
that can go through that. Andyou know, and this is hey,
even if someone is you know,battling through depression, one of the best
things they do is just reach outto people. There's so many people out

(39:57):
there, more than you probably know, that want to help you. But
but you're the one that has totake that first step or make that phone
call or talk to your neighbor orwhatever it might be. And you know,
so there's always the action always emanatesfrom you, so you have to
take that action. I mean,you may have some people that are support

(40:19):
that can see that you're struggling,and those are you know, angels that
have come to help you. Okay, but you know, just take that
step out that door and and andthere you'll find so many people are really
really interested in your well being.And want you to succeed. Yeah,
I love that. And sometimes Ithink it also could be people that are

(40:40):
not in your immediate sphere, right, it could be that, you know,
but it might be a distance andsometimes that's you know, you just
need to reach out to that person. So definitely love that. That's huge,
being thinking again for being here.I mean, I really enjoyed our
conversation. Anything else do you wantto say before I let you go?
Well, you know there's there's alsoanother saying when when my I was helping

(41:02):
my mom through knee replacement surgery andwe came up with our own theme because
I was helping her with the physicaltherapy is just keep moving, keep moving
in life. You know, ourbodies, our minds are you know,
spirit needs to keep moving. We'renot meant to be just you know,

(41:22):
sitting in a mud puddle. Youknow, we're we're here to move and
create and and and have a positiveeffect on other folks. But you know,
it's just good for us to keepmoving, you know, be the
be the river rather than the stagnantyou know, mud puddle. I love
that. I love that. Well, thank you again for sharing that and
welcome having you here. So uh, definitely, thank you for that.

(41:43):
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