Episode Transcript

What’s up, guys, welcome back to THE a.m.

So I want to talk about being a force of change, and I want to talk about really healthy mindset with this. So I’ve talked a lot about long term goals, and I’ve also talked about, hey, you’re gonna do things that you don’t like, okay, to go anywhere in life. You’re gonna have to do things that are hard and difficult, and you’re gonna have to endure some hardship in life. It’s just, it’s just a fact, right? It’s how life works.

However, I think if there’s something that you’re passionate about and you want to do work in this area. You want to work in this industry, right? But the industry itself sucks. The culture sucks, right? Most people wait for everybody else to do something about it. And I think this is normal human nature. We want somebody else to fix it. And I want to propose this to you guys. You be the force of change. You change it. Why not? Somebody is going to have to change it if it’s going to get better, why not you? What’s the downside to it? You’re celebrated?People are going to like you? People don’t like you now, right? And, like I said, like, Oh, you’re celebrated, right? Because that’s that you look at people who’ve changed things for the positive, for the better. Okay, cool. You’d be the force of change.

It just comes down often times too. We don’t want to be first like nobody likes to go first. Nobody likes to be the odd man out. We don’t want to stand out and then possibly face rejection. Rejection, to us, is like the end of the world. And I think that life is so much more than than hiding out of a fear of out of fear of rejection, right? It’s so much more. I experience a lot of rejection, growing up a lot, to the point to where it was very painful, like I struggled with a lot of stuff. I struggled with depression, I struggled with suicide, a lot of those things, right? And I met Jesus. He healed me, and I gave my life to Him, and my whole life changed. And then it just became apparent of, oh, I want to do something and change things.

And this is me just, I’m I didn’t plan on going here, but this is me being raw and real about this. But it really came a point. I was like, Man, I want to do something and create change where I’m at, and I’ll be the odd man out. I’ll be the odd man out. It’s worth being the odd man out. It’s worth having an impact on somebody ‘s life positively. It’s worth loving people and doing something that would better everybody else. It’s worth serving people that way.

And that’s missed a lot by us. Our fear of rejection is so heightened and then so large and severe in a lot of ways that it’s really crippling to us. It’s really crippling to how we act and think. And I think there’s more to life than that, and there’s more to life than just maintaining the status quo.

When when I first started business with Andrew, and when we first start formed our partnership and the way we want to do things, one of the things we specifically talked about is we want to do it different. We had worked for a lot of companies, and it wasn’t even the industry that we’re trying to change, right? We worked for a lot of companies that were horrible to work for. They didn’t care that we didn’t have a voice as much as we wanted a voice we didn’t have a voice, right? Like I got tasked for helping out with efficiencies. And it was a task given to me by people at one of my last jobs, find efficiencies. I found, like, $300,000 in a hole to plug it. I was tasked with this. I did it, and nobody cared, and nobody listened.

And so when Andrew and I started the company, well, we decided that we didn’t want it to be that way. We wanted to be a force of change. And I’m, I’m saying this because if you’ve been thinking about doing something, you go be that force of change. And be a force of change to serve people, be a force of change to love people. Be a force of change that improves people’s lives. It’s not a detriment, right? And so because you’re always influencing and changing something like you’re influenced to remain the norm, you’re changing and fighting against any, any side of change. So you’re keeping things that’s that’s a force to change. It’s just against it, right? It just stays the status quo of wherever you’re at.

And so I’m saying this because I, I don’t believe that I’m special, cool, yes, I’ve gone through a bunch of stuff. You may think that I’m super brilliantly smart. Okay, I just think that I’ve had enough humility to learn some things over my life, and I think that if you had enough humility to you’d be in the same place as me. It just takes courage, it takes honor, it takes humility and a willingness to be wrong and learn, and you can really do anything you want at that point in life, like, what’s stopping you and what’s stopping you from going through some hardship?

I mean, Andrew and I’ve been to a place where we had no money to buy or pay for anything, right, poor as we can possibly be, and I think it’s so important to be like, cool we’ve overcomed that you can overcome that too. You list a lot of people who like they were living out of their car. Be the force of change. It’d be worth it. It be a worthwhile endeavor if the greater good actually serves people around you.

Anyways, guys, that’s it. I’ll catch you later. Peace.