Ep. 23 – Community – Robert Hays, Co-founder of Yes! Coffee.
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Ep. 23 – Community – Robert Hays, Co-founder of Yes! Coffee.
My Tribe is My Personal Community.
My Personal Community fosters:
Teamwork
Accountability
Shared goals
Robert is a co-founder of Yes! Life.
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My Tribe is My Personal Community. My Personal Community fosters: Teamwork Accountability Shared goals Episode transcript. Robert […]
July 6, 2023
Episode Transcript
Michael Abernathy 0:00
Hey what’s up, everybody? Welcome to THE a.m. Welcome to 5 Minute Rants. I’m your host, Michael Abernathy. and welcome to the show where we talk about the journey of life and business and forward movement and growth. Last episode, I had Robert Hayes on he’s a co-founder of Yes! Coffee., and one of the things he brought up was his personal community. And we pretty much just stopped. I was like, bro, I need to talk about this a little bit more. So I have him for a second episode here. Say hello, Robert.
Robert Hays 0:39
Hey.
Michael Abernathy 0:41
What’s up, Man?
Robert Hays 0:42
Not much. I just like the long hey.
Michael Abernathy 0:44
Well your last name is…
Robert Hays 0:47
Hays.
Michael Abernathy 0:48
Anyways, let’s jump into this real quick. All right. Last time, we talked about personal community, I want to call it tribe, our tribe, and I want you to talk more about that.
Robert Hays 0:59
Ya know, as we were talking off, off the podcast, like it was really hitting me even deeper, how much community is vital to everything, you know, because if you look at any business, there’s a team. If you look at every family, there’s a team. You know, we can always, like try to do it ourselves, but we’re only one person, and like, we have our own personal attributes and traits, and, you know, everything else. Like I’m a musician, I’m outgoing, you know. When I run my restaurant, like people know me, stuff like that, right? But like, if I don’t have someone that has more of a technical mindset, my work is drastically hindered because of that. Because I’ll just do things a lot instead of like being more process oriented. So having somebody else in my life that helps with processes, and to teach me how to be more process oriented is hugely important. Does that make sense?
Michael Abernathy 2:05
That totally makes sense. Can you talk about shared goals? Because as you’re talking about process, and working together, mentioned the concept of shared goals?
Robert Hays 2:15
Yeah, shared goals. Like, if you have a tribe, or if we have two people together, the whole idea of shared goals is you have to agree on something. You know, like the people that are working together, if they’re all going towards the same direction, then like, it’s all going to work out really well. There’ll be bumps and hard things along the way, but like, the shared goal of opening a pizza restaurant, if two people are on board with that, then both of their attributes are going to work towards making that pizza joint happen and be successful. Does that make sense?
Michael Abernathy 3:00
That makes sense.
Robert Hays 3:02
Yeah, and that bleeds over into any anything in life. I mean, you can start a baseball team.
Michael Abernathy 3:08
Yeah.
Robert Hays 3:08
You know, like, a married couple, if they have the same shared goal of raising amazing kids, to be friendly, and follow, and I’m a Christian, so follow Jesus, that really is important to keep going in the same direction. You know?
Michael Abernathy 3:28
That makes sense. Yeah, I was going to ask, if you’ll talk about that too? How that applies to family. The shared goals and things?
Robert Hays 3:38
Yeah, I mean, again, I think it goes back into, like, what I was talking about earlier about, like, you know, my personal self. Like, I’m the outgoing type, you know, my wife is not as as outgoing as I am. But if we’re working together, you know, to raise kids to basically learn principles and like teach them principles and all that other stuff, like, we have to be on the same page. And we should be working together to really teach them, and to raise them up as the next, you know, next generation of people. If that makes sense?
Michael Abernathy 4:16
Yeah, that totally does. And you’re going back talking about the tribe, how you fill in with each other’s gaps?
Robert Hays 4:22
Yeah.
Michael Abernathy 4:22
I think that’s really important. What are your thoughts about structuring teamwork off of that?
Robert Hays 4:28
Structuring? What do mean?
Michael Abernathy 4:30
Like, you’re an outgoing person, right? You’re an outgoing person, you have your strengths and weaknesses, like, do you structure your team and do you have thoughts about structuring your team around filling in those gaps? So you find somebody who’s good at what you don’t do?
Robert Hays 4:43
That’s… that’s tough. Because, like, you know, I’m still learning to figure out who people are and what they’re good at. And then like, you know, like seeing what they are strong at, and then just like, giving them tasks to help with, you know, a certain area does that makes sense?
Michael Abernathy 4:43
That totally makes sense. That totally makes sense. well, guys, thanks for joining us again. We’re out of time. It goes by quick doesn’t it?
Robert Hays 5:06
It does!
Michael Abernathy 5:07
And now we’re 10 seconds over… So anyways, hope you guys stay blessed and I’ll talk to y’all soon. Peace!