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- 0:14Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Business Roundtable podcast while we sit
- 0:17Speaker 1: down with leaders who've built something real and put lessons
- 0:20Speaker 1: out that actually transfer into business. I'm David Carr, Founder
- 0:24Speaker 1: Steward your Business, your host, and I'm going to start
- 0:28Speaker 1: here with you perhaps a sentence that might make you
- 0:30Speaker 1: feel a little uncomfortable as a leader. There, Yes was
- 0:34Speaker 1: a flight version of goodbye. That is how my guest
- 0:38Speaker 1: describes a moment where most leaders miss, where someone agrees
- 0:42Speaker 1: or nods and says that sounds great, but you actually
- 0:45Speaker 1: never hear from them again. And not because they lied,
- 0:48Speaker 1: but because they were never actually speaking. You weren't speaking
- 0:50Speaker 1: their language. You guys were disconnected. And so I'm very
- 0:54Speaker 1: excited to have Jake Saul on our podcast here, brand
- 0:56Speaker 1: new guest. He spent over fifteen years inside this gap.
- 1:00Speaker 1: He's trained over ten thousand sales professionals across dozens of states,
- 1:05Speaker 1: six countries, influenced over one hundred million dollars in communative
- 1:09Speaker 1: deal flow. And what I'm excited He's built a framework
- 1:11Speaker 1: called neurostrategy. We're going to break down a bit today
- 1:14Speaker 1: that goes past personality tests but really into the psychology,
- 1:18Speaker 1: the wiring the person has across the table. And he's
- 1:22Speaker 1: even wrote a book literally called Own the Room, How
- 1:24Speaker 1: to Communicate, be seen and heard and respected. Well, we'll
- 1:27Speaker 1: put that on show notes. Jake, Welcome to the podcast.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Oh, David, thanks for having me. This is quite an honor.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Oh, it's a blast. I really enjoy getting to know you.
- 1:37Speaker 1: We've had a number of conversations, and your concept of
- 1:41Speaker 1: neurostrategy was unique to me. I think it was a
- 1:44Speaker 1: new and different take on it. And so before you
- 1:47Speaker 1: got to neurostrategy, you know, you were you're in the
- 1:50Speaker 1: pharmaceutical industry. You've been leading teams for you know, I
- 1:54Speaker 1: think over sixty five million dollars in annual sales, you
- 1:56Speaker 1: rand number one of the country. But what it all
- 1:59Speaker 1: that teat you? That well intentioned you were working, but
- 2:02Speaker 1: like like you said, but it didn't land, Like, hey,
- 2:05Speaker 1: what did you You've spent of those years and it
- 2:07Speaker 1: didn't land. So you obviously it spurred you to go
- 2:09Speaker 1: to neurostrategy. So take us before neurostrategy, what were you
- 2:12Speaker 1: seeing there?
- 2:14Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've been a sales trainer for God close
- 2:17Speaker 2: to thirty years now, and I'll tell you what, David.
- 2:20Speaker 2: The one thing I see is buyers, well not just buyers.
- 2:25Speaker 2: All of us have what I call two profiles. We
- 2:28Speaker 2: have the one profile that we show everybody. You know,
- 2:31Speaker 2: I put the hat on that profile, the glasses on there,
- 2:34Speaker 2: I'm polite, you know, this is the profile I put forward.
- 2:38Speaker 2: But the truth is, David, we all have a second profile.
- 2:42Speaker 2: And that second profile is the one that makes all
- 2:45Speaker 2: the decisions. So it's the second profile that remembers past
- 2:49Speaker 2: experiences that were just like this one. It's the one
- 2:51Speaker 2: that responds to fear and pricing and gets all the anxiety.
- 2:57Speaker 2: And you know how that person is. You know, hey,
- 3:00Speaker 2: I want to buy a new car, and that's the
- 3:02Speaker 2: outward facing I want to drive a new vehicle. But
- 3:04Speaker 2: inside person, the second profile was going, dude, you can
- 3:07Speaker 2: afford this, You can barely your mortgage, so what the
- 3:10Speaker 2: hell are you doing? So my whole career has been
- 3:14Speaker 2: around how do we identify the true decision maker, which
- 3:18Speaker 2: is your second profile, and how do we talk to it?
- 3:23Speaker 2: And that goes way beyond typical sales training because we're
- 3:26Speaker 2: always taught talk to the person in front of you,
- 3:29Speaker 2: and if your pitch is good enough, you'll sell. And
- 3:32Speaker 2: I found David over thirty years. That's just not true.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just that is fascinating and it's it. And
- 3:39Speaker 1: I hope as every people are listening to this, because
- 3:41Speaker 1: I'm just checking myself on that, Jake, and you know,
- 3:46Speaker 1: recognizing there's these I'll call me even saboteurs or ways
- 3:49Speaker 1: of thinking, like, hey, it's to your point, I want
- 3:51Speaker 1: to want that car, but then there's all these other
- 3:53Speaker 1: things that are going on the back of my head.
- 3:55Speaker 1: And I didn't even realize what you said. I remember
- 3:58Speaker 1: as you're saying that, I remember my wife saying, oh,
- 4:00Speaker 1: we like great to have a second house or go
- 4:02Speaker 1: those listens to your point, I would be like, oh,
- 4:05Speaker 1: I can't, we can't like set afford that orr. I
- 4:07Speaker 1: have all these things in my mind, and then I
- 4:08Speaker 1: was like, I'm shutting these things down. They're not helping
- 4:10Speaker 1: me but actually hurting me, you know, yep, right, And
- 4:15Speaker 1: so you know this what made you so? Did you
- 4:20Speaker 1: saw this this challenge? Because what made you though so
- 4:24Speaker 1: you were in sales, you're helping folks make this adjustment,
- 4:27Speaker 1: but what made it made you step away and really
- 4:29Speaker 1: move toward what you're doing obviously today, like because you
- 4:33Speaker 1: could have kept going and doing this, but you you
- 4:35Speaker 1: pivoted here a little bit. I'm not a little bit,
- 4:37Speaker 1: quite a bit, and you said, okay, hey, there's a
- 4:40Speaker 1: bigger problem here. Walk me through your journey of like,
- 4:43Speaker 1: because you were experiencing and you're saying okay, But you
- 4:45Speaker 1: could have just stayed in that sales space. You could
- 4:47Speaker 1: have just kept doing that, Jake, what made you want
- 4:49Speaker 1: to pivot as a business owner, you know, and go
- 4:53Speaker 1: in this other direction?
- 4:54Speaker 2: There were two things. The first is, just like you
- 4:57Speaker 2: and everybody else listening, we're all buyers. We're all buying
- 5:01Speaker 2: things all the time or declining things all the time.
- 5:04Speaker 2: And I think about the way I want to be treated.
- 5:07Speaker 2: So when I think about that, I think, I want
- 5:10Speaker 2: this person to really understand what my motivations are. I
- 5:13Speaker 2: want them to really understand why I'm buying or not buying.
- 5:18Speaker 2: And oddly enough, David, this all came from the question
- 5:20Speaker 2: how are you hate that greeting? And the reason is
- 5:24Speaker 2: it creates a pre conditioned response. Right, I say hi,
- 5:28Speaker 2: how are you? And you go fine? Thanks? How are you?
- 5:31Speaker 1: Yes?
- 5:31Speaker 2: Yes, I talk to a member of my family and
- 5:33Speaker 2: I say I love you. They say, oh, yeah, I
- 5:35Speaker 2: love you too. If you go into a retail store
- 5:38Speaker 2: and the clerk says, can I help you? Our response
- 5:40Speaker 2: is no, thanks.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Just looking yeah, right.
- 5:44Speaker 2: So I found that preconditioned responses we're leading to pre
- 5:49Speaker 2: conditioned conversations. So my whole goal was a how do
- 5:53Speaker 2: I appeal to profile number two because I've got one
- 5:56Speaker 2: and I wish somebody could read that. Ye, And number
- 5:59Speaker 2: two is if you start me with a pre condition response,
- 6:05Speaker 2: I'm going to continue to develop those pre condition responses
- 6:08Speaker 2: because all my past is going to come flooding forward.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I call them echoes. So my whole go was, how
- 6:15Speaker 2: do we start genuine conversation and avoid those pre condition responses,
- 6:19Speaker 2: and how do I talk to the decision maker? And
- 6:22Speaker 2: what I found was when I started teaching this, it
- 6:26Speaker 2: created almost like a referral machine because people were saying, Jake,
- 6:31Speaker 2: we've never thought about it this way before. Do that
- 6:34Speaker 2: for us too. So it really became a great referral
- 6:38Speaker 2: process because I wasn't your typical sales trainer. I was
- 6:42Speaker 2: now a sales psychologist, whatever you want to call it.
- 6:48Speaker 2: And so I pursued that a little bit more. I
- 6:50Speaker 2: got a degree in psychology, I have a master certification
- 6:53Speaker 2: in neuro linguistic programming, and we all know Tony Robbins
- 6:58Speaker 2: made that famous. And I always joked that I've read
- 7:02Speaker 2: so many social psychology books. Somebody just owes me a degree,
- 7:06Speaker 2: just hand it over. I've done the work. So I
- 7:10Speaker 2: took all three of those behavioral psych social psych and NLP,
- 7:13Speaker 2: and I created what I call neuro strategy, and it's
- 7:16Speaker 2: teaching someone how to talk to that second profile.
- 7:20Speaker 1: MM. That's so fascinating and I think, to your point, Jake,
- 7:26Speaker 1: we need more of that in the world. That's why
- 7:28Speaker 1: I'm having you on the podcast, because I can't tell
- 7:30Speaker 1: you can't tell you how many either emails, direct messages
- 7:35Speaker 1: I get that or to your point of better for
- 7:38Speaker 1: this general generalized terrible right there, this general Could you
- 7:43Speaker 1: use more clients today? I mean come on now, I
- 7:46Speaker 1: mean really please, right, you know, I mean they're just there.
- 7:51Speaker 1: And to your point, it's it's just selling. Who's in
- 7:55Speaker 1: front of you. I've got something to sell. Let me
- 7:57Speaker 1: just sell in front of you instead of like building
- 7:59Speaker 1: the relationship and understanding where this person is coming from.
- 8:02Speaker 1: And and why I love having you on here is
- 8:05Speaker 1: because you understand, I mean, we are there are truths
- 8:10Speaker 1: about our human condition, and there's different personalities, and I
- 8:14Speaker 1: think personalities are good. I used the five voices. I
- 8:17Speaker 1: know there's disc and I think these are all great things.
- 8:20Speaker 1: But we have to go deeper in that. And I
- 8:22Speaker 1: think that's where I really want to go a little
- 8:25Speaker 1: unpack a little bit more about the neurostrategy, because I
- 8:29Speaker 1: think people, you know, can really benefit from like you said,
- 8:34Speaker 1: get to that. I like that how you said that
- 8:36Speaker 1: second voice, there's that front end that and and I
- 8:40Speaker 1: think sometime people are presenting that and some people, honestly,
- 8:44Speaker 1: I was just talking about some folks about this last week, Jake,
- 8:47Speaker 1: where they're presenting a certain first voice, like you said,
- 8:51Speaker 1: and they don't even realize I think even themselves, they
- 8:53Speaker 1: don't realize there's a second voice. Why they're right, that'd
- 8:57Speaker 1: be true. Then we realize they haven't even identify that
- 9:00Speaker 1: second voice in themselves, right.
- 9:02Speaker 2: And you know, one of the ways that you can
- 9:05Speaker 2: become most aware of this is when you did something
- 9:10Speaker 2: or you said something to somebody and you go, oh
- 9:13Speaker 2: my god, that was my dad talking, right, that's the
- 9:17Speaker 2: inner voice. And I tell people you have a caption
- 9:19Speaker 2: over your head, you're talking one thing but your caption's
- 9:22Speaker 2: telling me something completely different, and it's our inability to
- 9:27Speaker 2: recognize that that makes people like me a little bit
- 9:32Speaker 2: more valuable, because you may be saying, Hey, I don't
- 9:36Speaker 2: want to do this, but I can see you do.
- 9:39Speaker 2: You just need a really good reason to do it.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Or it could be the opposite. You could be saying, Hey, Jake,
- 9:45Speaker 2: I really want to buy this, but I see a
- 9:46Speaker 2: little light over your head that's saying got no interest,
- 9:49Speaker 2: And as soon as we're off the phone, I'm ghosting you.
- 9:52Speaker 1: M hm. So if this individual doesn't understand that they
- 9:56Speaker 1: have a second voice, it's certainly gonna be harder to
- 9:59Speaker 1: reach somebody else's second voice, right, It's like understanding, like
- 10:03Speaker 1: where's this coming from?
- 10:05Speaker 2: Yes? And no? So yes, it can be difficult to
- 10:09Speaker 2: pull out somebody's voice if you're not listening for it.
- 10:12Speaker 2: But my book Own the Room details how to do
- 10:16Speaker 2: that through the framework I created. So how do you
- 10:18Speaker 2: get to that inner profile? Yeah, and it gives a
- 10:23Speaker 2: a a six step process for getting there, and it's
- 10:27Speaker 2: really intuitive and easy to do. But it's mostly david
- 10:31Speaker 2: about seeing things you never saw before. Like one of
- 10:35Speaker 2: the first steps I have form my clients is do
- 10:37Speaker 2: me a favor this week. Just notice whenever somebody looks
- 10:40Speaker 2: away from the camera, it's all I want to do.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Don't do anything else. And by the end of the
- 10:46Speaker 2: week they're like, Jake, this happens all the time. I mean,
- 10:49Speaker 2: they're always doing it. But now I've got you looking
- 10:53Speaker 2: at a tell and now you practice it and you're
- 10:56Speaker 2: never going to unsee it. Because keep in mind, David,
- 11:00Speaker 2: eighty percent of our communication is nonverbal. And let's put
- 11:04Speaker 2: that into context. Let's say David, your best friend, calls
- 11:08Speaker 2: you today and he says, David, if you just follow
- 11:12Speaker 2: these five steps, you'll be a millionaire by dinner. So
- 11:15Speaker 2: you're like, oh my god, let me get a pen.
- 11:18Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. Then the phone goes static for
- 11:22Speaker 2: eight minutes. Can hear what they're saying? You know they're talking,
- 11:25Speaker 2: but you can't hear it. Then all of a sudden
- 11:27Speaker 2: he comes back on. He goes, David, good talking to you.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Get this done. You'll be rich by dinner, and hangs up.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Oh my god.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So you're missing eighty percent of the message. But we
- 11:39Speaker 2: do this every day as humans. We don't pay attention
- 11:42Speaker 2: to what the body language is, so we're missing most
- 11:45Speaker 2: of the message that's taking place. And the book Own
- 11:49Speaker 2: the Room actually walks you through how to notice those
- 11:51Speaker 2: things as well. So part of noticing that person's second
- 11:55Speaker 2: profile is noticing what their body's telling you acquire a
- 12:00Speaker 2: degree in body language, super simple. Just several things you
- 12:05Speaker 2: can notice make all the difference in the world.
- 12:09Speaker 1: What's interesting, Jake, you said that I was talking to
- 12:11Speaker 1: somebody and I'm wondering, I want to get your thought
- 12:13Speaker 1: on this, because I've noticed there are times I'm on
- 12:19Speaker 1: doing video calls or meetings and people don't have their
- 12:23Speaker 1: video on. It's like they don't want to be seen.
- 12:27Speaker 1: They don't it's like they want to hide. And I
- 12:30Speaker 1: was or or talk or talk about I was talking
- 12:34Speaker 1: to another client that I had, and he was telling
- 12:36Speaker 1: me how I'm working with this guy and we do
- 12:38Speaker 1: deep work, like this work of five voices understanding ourselves,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and he's like, the guy literally said, Jake, well, I
- 12:42Speaker 1: don't do any of those assessments. I don't want people
- 12:45Speaker 1: to know me. I mean, I was like, wow, So
- 12:48Speaker 1: what is that speak a little bit to the fact
- 12:50Speaker 1: of that self preservation or like what the wall that
- 12:53Speaker 1: people are putting up there yeah.
- 12:56Speaker 2: And the basic concept behind that, David, is a lot
- 12:59Speaker 2: of what I teach is that every decision has a cost. So,
- 13:05Speaker 2: for instance, with this gentleman, it was his decision to
- 13:10Speaker 2: not be on camera was probably spurred by something that
- 13:13Speaker 2: happened previously that gave away too much information and he
- 13:18Speaker 2: felt exposed. So the cost of turning off his camera
- 13:23Speaker 2: is minimal, it's free, it's a gimme. But the cost
- 13:27Speaker 2: of turning on the camera is huge. It's bad memories,
- 13:30Speaker 2: it's a bad prior experience. And I'm not saying that's
- 13:33Speaker 2: what it is. I'm just throwing out.
- 13:34Speaker 1: A possibility, yep.
- 13:36Speaker 2: But everything has that cost. And I argue in one
- 13:40Speaker 2: of my most recent podcasts that the cost of responding
- 13:44Speaker 2: to somebody on an email or on a call is
- 13:46Speaker 2: exactly why people get ghosted, and that's why the yes
- 13:51Speaker 2: is often just a polite now mm wow.
- 13:55Speaker 1: So so I want to go deeper with Nurstra agree,
- 14:01Speaker 1: you know, where what is neurostrategy? How does this get?
- 14:05Speaker 1: Like you you mentioned when we talked earlier about maybe
- 14:07Speaker 1: a disc or Myers brig is kind of a high
- 14:09Speaker 1: level you know, overview, But what is what if the
- 14:12Speaker 1: neurostrategy kind of get at that those you know they're
- 14:15Speaker 1: not bad, But what does it get at that those
- 14:17Speaker 1: miss Jake?
- 14:18Speaker 2: Yeahs, First of all, I don't not personality assessments. I
- 14:24Speaker 2: think they're amazing and accurate and should absolutely be used
- 14:28Speaker 2: as part of your prospecting. I think it's fantastic, love
- 14:31Speaker 2: your five voices thing that should absolutely be used. What
- 14:35Speaker 2: those don't tell you is the undercurrents or the captions
- 14:39Speaker 2: over their head. So I may know that their highly
- 14:43Speaker 2: relationship driven, and they're excitable, and they respond best to
- 14:49Speaker 2: people who talk in stories. That's great, but it doesn't
- 14:55Speaker 2: tell you what story they'd prefer to hear. It doesn't
- 14:59Speaker 2: tell you why that person prefers the story. And that's
- 15:03Speaker 2: part of sales, right, is if I'm going to change
- 15:06Speaker 2: your mind, I need to know why you make decisions
- 15:10Speaker 2: and how you make them. The overall personality tests tell
- 15:15Speaker 2: you the personality, but they don't tell you what spurs
- 15:18Speaker 2: that personality underneath. Neurostrategy is what helps uncover that piece. Yeah.
- 15:25Speaker 1: So when you're getting the neurostrategy, and particularly when you're
- 15:29Speaker 1: talking about sales, Jake, it's like, what is driving their
- 15:32Speaker 1: decisions and I've heard, I mean, and I was. I
- 15:36Speaker 1: had another woman on my podcast, Terracey Holland recently, and
- 15:38Speaker 1: we just we're talking about how she helps business owners
- 15:42Speaker 1: talk about getting bitter at clarifying the pain of the problem.
- 15:46Speaker 1: But to your point, right, what is that for that
- 15:49Speaker 1: second voice? Because sometimes we talked too high and it
- 15:52Speaker 1: doesn't resonate. It's like, eh, it doesn't hit me the
- 15:56Speaker 1: right way. Yeah, And so we're there's this mismatch of
- 15:59Speaker 1: what we're communicating. Talk a little bit about what do
- 16:02Speaker 1: you see where leaders are sales earl theres is this
- 16:05Speaker 1: mismatch a little earlier, but really where they're like getting
- 16:08Speaker 1: this wrong, where they're like communicating and it's not being received.
- 16:13Speaker 1: You know, what are the sort of situation other situations
- 16:16Speaker 1: you may have seen in her Where have you worked
- 16:17Speaker 1: with clients, even Jake, where it's like they were doing
- 16:20Speaker 1: that and like, let's use the example of this this
- 16:23Speaker 1: gentleman even maybe where he was turning off his camera,
- 16:26Speaker 1: but we could turn that around where he's like turning
- 16:28Speaker 1: on his camera, he's like, oh, I'm leaning in, Oh
- 16:31Speaker 1: I actually want to be known. You walk us through
- 16:35Speaker 1: kind of the mismatch and maybe where we've actually been
- 16:37Speaker 1: had successful breaking through that.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Sure. So let me give you a real life scenario.
- 16:42Speaker 2: I was on with a prospect about six months ago,
- 16:45Speaker 2: wonderful woman, super nice, and we got on the phone
- 16:49Speaker 2: and we both had our cameras on, and I noticed
- 16:52Speaker 2: her glasses matched her earrings. It's almost like they came
- 16:56Speaker 2: from the same factory.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Uh huh.
- 16:58Speaker 2: So I said to her, Wow, that combo is fantastic.
- 17:03Speaker 2: How did you do that? Did you order that together?
- 17:07Speaker 2: Immediately her hand went to her wedding ring. She started
- 17:10Speaker 2: to twirl it, started to pull it off, put it
- 17:12Speaker 2: back on. There's my caption, compliments are not good. And
- 17:19Speaker 2: there's a million reasons she could have been twirling her
- 17:21Speaker 2: wedding ring. She could have been reminding herself she's married.
- 17:25Speaker 2: She could have been telling me, hey, I'm married, don't
- 17:27Speaker 2: compliment the way I look. Could have been a million things.
- 17:30Speaker 2: But most people would overlook that nervous twitch. They just
- 17:34Speaker 2: do that when they're uncomfortable. But I took that and
- 17:38Speaker 2: redirected to another topic completely so we could get back
- 17:41Speaker 2: to business. As soon as I redirecting got back to business,
- 17:46Speaker 2: wedding ring fidgeting stopped. Her hands were on the table.
- 17:49Speaker 2: She was interested and locked in. But as leaders, we
- 17:53Speaker 2: don't tend to do that. We tend to go in
- 17:55Speaker 2: and think, if I can motivate them, if I can
- 17:58Speaker 2: get them excited, if I can really get just some
- 18:01Speaker 2: gung ho attitude, it's gonna work. Motivation is different than intention,
- 18:09Speaker 2: so the group could leave motivated, but their intention could
- 18:13Speaker 2: remain the same or even drop down a notch. And
- 18:19Speaker 2: part of it is just getting a feel for the group.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Don't talk at them, talk with them, and if you
- 18:25Speaker 2: have the choice, don't talk at all for the first
- 18:28Speaker 2: ten or fifteen minutes and let them air what they're
- 18:31Speaker 2: thinking so you can build on it. Like one of
- 18:35Speaker 2: my rules of thumb went I'm with the prospect is
- 18:38Speaker 2: I make sure they talk for the first ten or
- 18:40Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. If they try to direct it to me,
- 18:44Speaker 2: I redirected back to them because I want them to
- 18:47Speaker 2: know I'm listening, I'm paying attention. It's giving me an
- 18:51Speaker 2: idea of what their caption is and what their second
- 18:53Speaker 2: profile looks like. But more importantly, David, it makes them
- 18:58Speaker 2: feel good. You've actually proven chemically that when you talk
- 19:03Speaker 2: about yourself and what you do, it's chemically equivalent to
- 19:06Speaker 2: eating a chocolate cupcake. Yeah, you get the same neurotransmitters,
- 19:11Speaker 2: you get the same endorphin rush. So if I can
- 19:15Speaker 2: get them feeling good about the conversation and they trust me,
- 19:18Speaker 2: they're going to reveal more.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmm.
- 19:22Speaker 2: That most leaders and salespeople are like, let me get
- 19:26Speaker 2: out what I have to say, and as you're talking,
- 19:28Speaker 2: I'm just going to be thinking about what I'm going
- 19:30Speaker 2: to say.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Next, right, But it's an and flow that's so powerful.
- 19:36Speaker 1: What the word that comes to mind is you say
- 19:37Speaker 1: that Jake is be curious. Yeah, for sure, and really
- 19:45Speaker 1: listen for what is like you said meaningful to them,
- 19:47Speaker 1: and you brought up some of these things that we
- 19:49Speaker 1: can look at body language as well.
- 19:51Speaker 2: Yep.
- 19:52Speaker 1: And I think like to your point, leaders particularly, maybe
- 19:56Speaker 1: some personality types are a little bit more driven that
- 19:59Speaker 1: they can kind of road folks and undermine their influence
- 20:02Speaker 1: instead of if they would just like you said, slow
- 20:04Speaker 1: it down a little bit and and listen. And it's
- 20:07Speaker 1: hard sometimes so's folks are a little bit more driven
- 20:09Speaker 1: in that way. Others are better naturally listeners. But I
- 20:12Speaker 1: understanding that when to when to hit the pump the
- 20:17Speaker 1: brakes and when to put the gas on there. Once
- 20:21Speaker 1: you once people start applying this, I mean, how long
- 20:26Speaker 1: do you usually see jake to where it actually starts
- 20:28Speaker 1: like they're like, oh my goodness, they starting to, like
- 20:30Speaker 1: you said, you start noticing things. Is it pretty quick
- 20:33Speaker 1: where they start to see oh, I didn't even notice
- 20:35Speaker 1: that blind spot or you.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Know, on the person. If they're excited about learning it
- 20:40Speaker 2: and really dig into the homework, they're gonna they're gonna
- 20:44Speaker 2: see a noticeable change within a month to six weeks.
- 20:49Speaker 2: Absolutely huge change for people who aren't as dedicated to
- 20:54Speaker 2: making it work.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Yep.
- 20:56Speaker 2: I've had clients that have gone six to eight months
- 20:59Speaker 2: just because they continue to push back and continue to
- 21:02Speaker 2: fight the issue. But let me just throw another example
- 21:08Speaker 2: for you. I had a prospect I was introduced to
- 21:12Speaker 2: and I got on the phone with her and I
- 21:14Speaker 2: did let her talk, and out of thirty minutes, she
- 21:18Speaker 2: talked for about twenty nine and a half of it.
- 21:22Speaker 2: So I got off the phone and my wife goes
- 21:23Speaker 2: how to go and I said, I didn't even get
- 21:27Speaker 2: to pitch my wares. I said, so I don't anticipate
- 21:30Speaker 2: a callback, which is okay, But I think she just
- 21:33Speaker 2: needed somebody to listen. So I had written her off.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Forty five minutes later, my email pinged and it said
- 21:41Speaker 2: from the customer, It said, don't think it was lost
- 21:43Speaker 2: on me that all you did was listen. When can
- 21:46Speaker 2: we get started? So it's not always going to happen
- 21:52Speaker 2: that way, but the power of silence and just listening
- 21:55Speaker 2: often has a much larger impact than.
- 21:58Speaker 1: We think it will. Yeah, and to your point, that
- 22:05Speaker 1: is awesome that you've created that space for number one,
- 22:07Speaker 1: but for the folks, and I want folks to hopefully
- 22:10Speaker 1: hopefully that I know the people that are listening to
- 22:12Speaker 1: this probably are the ones that are actually going to
- 22:14Speaker 1: be coachable and want to listen to this, but you know,
- 22:16Speaker 1: want to go and actually do this work, Jake. But
- 22:18Speaker 1: maybe they have somebody on their team or maybe something
- 22:21Speaker 1: else that is being resistant this, and I probably find
- 22:23Speaker 1: this is what would you say to those folks that
- 22:26Speaker 1: you're They're like, they really want to have their team succeed,
- 22:29Speaker 1: They're trying to lead by example, but there's resistance there,
- 22:32Speaker 1: and what would you encourage it. Maybe there's some language
- 22:35Speaker 1: or some things there. I think that to help them
- 22:37Speaker 1: unlock themselves, because I feel like what you said earlier, Jake,
- 22:40Speaker 1: about this resistance, it's my words is a self preservation one.
- 22:46Speaker 1: And it's like it's it's I'm going to lose this,
- 22:49Speaker 1: you said earlier. I'm going to lose this. If I
- 22:51Speaker 1: put my camera on, I'm gonna there's a bigger loss.
- 22:54Speaker 1: There's a but how have you been able to turn
- 22:57Speaker 1: it around saying no, yes, it could be however we
- 22:59Speaker 1: can flip it rad It can actually be an amazing gain,
- 23:02Speaker 1: actually way more than you're losing. Yeah, you know that's
- 23:06Speaker 1: my mindset anyways, where I'm coming from and trying to
- 23:08Speaker 1: help unlock people where they are going to see the
- 23:10Speaker 1: gain of the opportunity versus the loss. Can you talk
- 23:16Speaker 1: to us speak to that a little bit?
- 23:17Speaker 2: Sure? So. A lot of times when I get leaders
- 23:21Speaker 2: that are a little resistant to try this or to
- 23:23Speaker 2: learn it, I alert them to one thing and we
- 23:26Speaker 2: talk about it a lot. Is that when people make
- 23:30Speaker 2: a decision, it's rarely based on what you talked about.
- 23:36Speaker 2: What it is based on is their chance for reward
- 23:40Speaker 2: and the cost to them internally. So let me give
- 23:43Speaker 2: you an example. We all know that we go through
- 23:48Speaker 2: stress and anxiety. There is one camp that says, hey, listen,
- 23:52Speaker 2: just take a benzodiazepine, take an out event, take a zenx,
- 23:57Speaker 2: take something to calm me down. Then there's another group
- 23:59Speaker 2: that says meditation is the answer. So there's a cost
- 24:04Speaker 2: to each of those, right, there is a cost of
- 24:06Speaker 2: taking a drug, side effects price, and there's a cost
- 24:10Speaker 2: of meditation. If you're not great at sitting down and
- 24:12Speaker 2: shutting up, that's not going to be great for you.
- 24:15Speaker 2: But it's not about the fact that I want to
- 24:18Speaker 2: do I want to get less anxious. That's a given.
- 24:22Speaker 2: But many.
- 24:25Speaker 1: How about there keep going?
- 24:26Speaker 2: But many salespeople say, oh my god, they're resisting me.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Yes, they're not.
- 24:32Speaker 2: And as a leader, we say they pushed back on
- 24:34Speaker 2: the all meeting. They didn't what the back on was,
- 24:38Speaker 2: what was the cost to them? And if they've ever
- 24:41Speaker 2: experienced this before, they're bringing up memories of how that went.
- 24:47Speaker 2: So if you say, as a leader, hey listen, I
- 24:49Speaker 2: have an open door policy and you walk away feeling great,
- 24:53Speaker 2: you could have somebody in the audience going, yeah, the
- 24:54Speaker 2: last guy that said that he can they came in
- 24:58Speaker 2: and complained. It's the flashbatcher, the echoes of past decisions,
- 25:04Speaker 2: and it's job to figure out what those echoes are
- 25:10Speaker 2: because they're making the decision. And that's the second profile.
- 25:14Speaker 1: That is so powerful. It's so funny you said that, Jake.
- 25:17Speaker 1: We did an episode a while back, and I'll put
- 25:18Speaker 1: a link in the green to that point and open
- 25:20Speaker 1: the door policy. It's not a bad thing, but it
- 25:23Speaker 1: may or may not get you the desire results to
- 25:25Speaker 1: your very point we talked about on that podcast. But
- 25:28Speaker 1: they're limiting themselves. They're like, I ain't going in there
- 25:31Speaker 1: because of previous experience. So then the leaders like, why
- 25:35Speaker 1: why isn't this working? You know? Well, like you said,
- 25:38Speaker 1: that's the other voice you. I want to one of
- 25:43Speaker 1: the things as we're talking about these challenges overcoming, because
- 25:46Speaker 1: you've overcome a lot, Jake, You've gone through a lot,
- 25:48Speaker 1: and we have business owners, aspiring business owners, leaders that
- 25:51Speaker 1: are wanting to step out and I always you know,
- 25:54Speaker 1: I don't always do this, but I think it's important
- 25:56Speaker 1: because I think you have such a unique perspective Jake,
- 25:59Speaker 1: that you ups and downs and as we all do, right,
- 26:04Speaker 1: but I think you've created something very meaningful beneficial here
- 26:07Speaker 1: in the world, this neurostrategy. In a ways, and by
- 26:11Speaker 1: the way you guys, you can connect with Jake. We're
- 26:12Speaker 1: connected on LinkedIn and I'll put it all in the
- 26:14Speaker 1: show notes and if you have comments, put him in
- 26:16Speaker 1: the show notes. But speak a little bit about, oh,
- 26:19Speaker 1: you this is really seeing. I think we get the
- 26:22Speaker 1: big picture of like on LinkedIn and the hey we won,
- 26:25Speaker 1: how we did it well, But talk a little bit
- 26:27Speaker 1: about Jake, you know, how did it cost for you
- 26:30Speaker 1: and your own journey? Right, Because I think this is
- 26:33Speaker 1: important for our listeners because sometimes they think, oh, it
- 26:37Speaker 1: should be so easy or we should just figure it out,
- 26:39Speaker 1: and it's like, well, no it's not. And anything worthwild,
- 26:42Speaker 1: and I think this is worthwhild you guys. That's why
- 26:44Speaker 1: I have Jake on the podcast and he's distilled this
- 26:46Speaker 1: down for you. But talk a little bit about your
- 26:49Speaker 1: own journey and how it keeps you keep going because
- 26:51Speaker 1: you have this compelling vision I call it compelling vision
- 26:53Speaker 1: to go and continue to help people day after day
- 26:56Speaker 1: and get out there, Jake, but share a little bit
- 26:58Speaker 1: about with our audience about your own journey as a
- 27:00Speaker 1: founder in creature.
- 27:02Speaker 2: So I went to work at eleven years old. I
- 27:05Speaker 2: worked at my dad's pharmacy and started to learn business
- 27:08Speaker 2: from the ground up, and I went through several sales
- 27:11Speaker 2: spots and at one point David I was speaking regularly
- 27:14Speaker 2: all over the country. I was requested in several countries
- 27:18Speaker 2: to do training sessions. It was great. Then I hit
- 27:22Speaker 2: my third knee surgery, and at my third knee surgery,
- 27:26Speaker 2: I got hooked on opioids and went into a two
- 27:28Speaker 2: year spiral. Lost my marriage, house, savings, lost it all, everything.
- 27:35Speaker 2: And when I came out of it, and when I
- 27:38Speaker 2: went through rehab, I saw something that really startled me.
- 27:43Speaker 2: And that's that. At that time, when I went through that,
- 27:47Speaker 2: opioid addiction was looked at as you're bad, you should
- 27:50Speaker 2: live under a bridge, don't talk to our kids. Now
- 27:54Speaker 2: it's much more accepted. But anyway, what I noticed was
- 27:58Speaker 2: that on the cover of People meg magazine, if a
- 28:00Speaker 2: star revealed they were an addict, it was, oh my god,
- 28:04Speaker 2: poor them. I wonder how I can help. But when
- 28:07Speaker 2: they saw me as an addict, they're like, stay away
- 28:09Speaker 2: from our family. You're not coming to work for me.
- 28:12Speaker 1: Get away.
- 28:13Speaker 2: And I thought, what is the dichotomy and why does
- 28:16Speaker 2: it work like that? And it hit me It's not
- 28:19Speaker 2: about the person, it's about their presence. And these were
- 28:24Speaker 2: all stars, so they already had a presence, They already
- 28:27Speaker 2: had a place in that person's heart or mind. I
- 28:31Speaker 2: didn't have that. So my own the Room was created,
- 28:36Speaker 2: and I tell this brief story in the front of
- 28:38Speaker 2: the book. Own the Room was created to get back
- 28:40Speaker 2: into rooms I was no longer allowed into. And a
- 28:45Speaker 2: lot of that was just changing my presence, changing how
- 28:49Speaker 2: I came across, because what I found was if I
- 28:51Speaker 2: tried to explain my addiction, people just doubled down on
- 28:56Speaker 2: why they didn't want to talk to me. So there
- 28:59Speaker 2: had to be a yeah. And you know, it was
- 29:03Speaker 2: a lot of trial and error. But what I found
- 29:06Speaker 2: was if I changed the way I show up and
- 29:09Speaker 2: I listened to what their body is saying as much
- 29:11Speaker 2: as their mouth, it changed everything. And now I'm remarried,
- 29:17Speaker 2: I live in a beautiful home, my business is remarkably successful.
- 29:22Speaker 2: I wrote a book, I've got a podcast. I mean,
- 29:26Speaker 2: it was a long road back. Don't don't think it
- 29:29Speaker 2: was easy. It was a long road back. But matter
- 29:32Speaker 2: what problem are going through as a business owner, somebody's
- 29:35Speaker 2: going through another problem that was equal to, or less than,
- 29:40Speaker 2: or more than yours. How much do you want it.
- 29:44Speaker 2: How much do you want to come back and how
- 29:46Speaker 2: much do you want to get done yet in your life?
- 29:50Speaker 2: And I just had a lot to do. I just
- 29:52Speaker 2: no longer had anybody to do it with.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Ah Man, Jake, Well, you're doing it now, and I
- 29:59Speaker 1: think you're to your point. You know, we all there's
- 30:04Speaker 1: different challenges, and I, like you said, you're why I
- 30:07Speaker 1: created the podcast was like one of the business owners
- 30:09Speaker 1: and leaders to know they're not alone, they have somebody
- 30:12Speaker 1: else that has gone through this where there's always somebody,
- 30:15Speaker 1: like I say, to the right of us and to
- 30:16Speaker 1: the left of us. And then if there's somebody here
- 30:18Speaker 1: you're struggling in this area, here's somebody Jake that can
- 30:21Speaker 1: walk you through and and really better be better. I
- 30:24Speaker 1: like how I used to just said a Jake, be
- 30:26Speaker 1: really present and in a way and carry yourself in
- 30:29Speaker 1: a way to people like pause and they're like, oh
- 30:32Speaker 1: wait a minute, who's this guy and how is he? Wow,
- 30:35Speaker 1: he's approaching things differently than I normally see and and
- 30:39Speaker 1: I think it's more than you know, just sales. But
- 30:42Speaker 1: it's really like you said, being seen, heard and respected, Harriet.
- 30:46Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, this is how do we do that
- 30:49Speaker 1: better in our world because I what I you know,
- 30:52Speaker 1: where I see this, Jake, and I want your input
- 30:54Speaker 1: on it, is like you know where leaders are are
- 30:57Speaker 1: missing that mark? They think in my world and a
- 31:00Speaker 1: lot of folks are engineers, scientists, they are very technically savvy, awesome, fantastic,
- 31:05Speaker 1: that's great, that gets you in the room, that gets
- 31:07Speaker 1: kind of like check that box. But they they fall
- 31:10Speaker 1: apart to your point in the presence meaning having that presence,
- 31:14Speaker 1: and they are missing it. You know, they're not reading
- 31:17Speaker 1: the room well if you will, and they're just assuming
- 31:21Speaker 1: because I have this, I've been able to check this
- 31:24Speaker 1: box or I've got this degree or whatever. It's like
- 31:27Speaker 1: that's enough, and I don't you know, unfortunately, and it's
- 31:29Speaker 1: not enough. Of my opinion, you speak to a little
- 31:32Speaker 1: bit about that where leaders are missing that mark of
- 31:34Speaker 1: being that being that present person.
- 31:37Speaker 2: I think one of the things David, I've seen over
- 31:39Speaker 2: coaching over the years, and I just did a podcast
- 31:42Speaker 2: on this, is that there's when people buy what you
- 31:47Speaker 2: have as a leader as a salesperson, they're not buying
- 31:51Speaker 2: what you have, They're buying who they are with what
- 31:55Speaker 2: you have so familiar, they're not buying your motivation or
- 32:00Speaker 2: you're thirty years of experience. What they're buying is their
- 32:04Speaker 2: future with you at the helm, and those are two
- 32:08Speaker 2: very different things. So a lot of times when we're
- 32:12Speaker 2: trying to coach somebody or we're trying to send them
- 32:14Speaker 2: an email, we have to realize that we're not talking
- 32:17Speaker 2: to that person. We're appealing to a side of them
- 32:21Speaker 2: we can't hear or see. Let me give you a
- 32:25Speaker 2: great example. Many people get ghosted after their call with somebody.
- 32:31Speaker 2: The person goes yes, yes, oh my god, this is
- 32:33Speaker 2: a great idea follow up on me, send me an email.
- 32:36Speaker 2: That's it, right, it's done. But you're not emailing the
- 32:41Speaker 2: same person you just talked to. That person was enthusiastic.
- 32:47Speaker 2: That person was excited. That person was ready to go.
- 32:50Speaker 2: The person you're emailing is now cold. They're not that
- 32:54Speaker 2: excited person anymore. They're now a person that has time
- 32:58Speaker 2: away from you, and the cost to respond to you
- 33:03Speaker 2: is much different than it was when you were live. Right,
- 33:09Speaker 2: So saying yes when you're live is considered polite. It's
- 33:12Speaker 2: just a way to say no and get you off
- 33:15Speaker 2: the call. But when you say yes in an email,
- 33:20Speaker 2: now it's a firm commitment, and that has a higher
- 33:24Speaker 2: cost than just ghosting. You M right. So we have
- 33:30Speaker 2: to consider at all times who we're talking to, and
- 33:33Speaker 2: it can be different hour to hour, day to day.
- 33:39Speaker 2: And that's I think whereas leaders, we kind of sometimes
- 33:43Speaker 2: missed the boat. So I was talking to a group
- 33:46Speaker 2: where we just had a great sales year. That's one
- 33:50Speaker 2: group of people. If you had a difficult sales year,
- 33:54Speaker 2: you're not talking that same group of people again, You're
- 33:56Speaker 2: not talking to a completely different mindset. Leaders, we can
- 34:01Speaker 2: tune into that, read that caption over their head. Yes,
- 34:05Speaker 2: our effectiveness increases exponentially.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Yes. And this is where I want to have you
- 34:11Speaker 1: on the podcast, Jake, because you have tools and resources
- 34:14Speaker 1: and we will send folks your way if you want
- 34:16Speaker 1: to do deeper work on this. And Jake showing that
- 34:19Speaker 1: this to me and some of the things, it's great.
- 34:21Speaker 1: It's a fantastic tools and resources of what you can
- 34:23Speaker 1: do because Jake, like you said, that can be overwhelming.
- 34:25Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, how do I do this? How do
- 34:27Speaker 1: I have to think about?
- 34:28Speaker 2: Right?
- 34:29Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, because that is complex and we have
- 34:34Speaker 1: a lot of different types of people and people think
- 34:36Speaker 1: about different things it's not one and the same, even
- 34:38Speaker 1: if you're you know, and so you're saying that, Jake,
- 34:41Speaker 1: I'm thinking out, I'm thinking to myself, you know, as
- 34:43Speaker 1: a leader. It's like you're right in the presence of that,
- 34:46Speaker 1: And then how do I follow up with them in
- 34:48Speaker 1: a very thoughtful way? Yeah, And I was even backing
- 34:51Speaker 1: up even further, Jake, to your point of like, when
- 34:53Speaker 1: I'm reaching out to people, And here's the thing I
- 34:57Speaker 1: found too, Jake, of like people are are also very
- 35:01Speaker 1: polite in that they will maybe they take an initial
- 35:04Speaker 1: call with you or something like that, which that's great,
- 35:07Speaker 1: But am I being thoughtful as to the how to
- 35:11Speaker 1: make the most of that time with them? You know? Again,
- 35:13Speaker 1: similar to that caption, right before they come into the call,
- 35:16Speaker 1: have asked them, been curious enough? Have I said enough questions?
- 35:20Speaker 1: And and and I'll say qualifying from a sales perspective,
- 35:23Speaker 1: but in a good way of like I want to
- 35:25Speaker 1: be a service. I want to make sure when they
- 35:27Speaker 1: come into this conversation, they come into the room. Like
- 35:29Speaker 1: you're saying that, hopefully it's not just a yes, it's
- 35:31Speaker 1: not polite because we've already kind of in a good
- 35:33Speaker 1: way of understanding where they're coming from. Right, We've set
- 35:36Speaker 1: the stage where they're like, let's just let's just lay
- 35:38Speaker 1: that down so we can get to the root of
- 35:41Speaker 1: it and make the most of our time together, right,
- 35:43Speaker 1: because our time is finite, So what can we do
- 35:46Speaker 1: so we're not spending this time of this dance if
- 35:49Speaker 1: you will, right, only to be like both both parties
- 35:52Speaker 1: are like, well, what was that for? What do we
- 35:53Speaker 1: get out of that?
- 35:55Speaker 2: Yeah? And David, you know, I marvel at salespeople and
- 35:59Speaker 2: leads who don't prep for a conversation. Like as a leader,
- 36:03Speaker 2: you'll say, David, will you come to my office? We
- 36:06Speaker 2: should have a talk? Yeah, and I just wing it.
- 36:08Speaker 2: As a leader, you're missing the boat with that. You
- 36:12Speaker 2: should prep where's David's mind today? What's the goal of
- 36:16Speaker 2: this conversation? What's the way to get there at the
- 36:19Speaker 2: lowest cost? For David? And the same thing with the
- 36:22Speaker 2: discovery call. I can't tell you how many salespeople I say,
- 36:25Speaker 2: how'd you prep for this discovery call? It was just
- 36:29Speaker 2: one of my meetings that I just went in And
- 36:32Speaker 2: then you know what, your close rate is going to
- 36:34Speaker 2: stay at an easily ten to twenty percent because that's
- 36:37Speaker 2: how you're preparing for your customers.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, h yeah, exactly, Jake. I know we're getting
- 36:44Speaker 1: into the end of the podcast here, and I would
- 36:46Speaker 1: love to go deeper, but we're getting We're getting there.
- 36:49Speaker 1: You've brought up so many great points today, and I
- 36:52Speaker 1: think hopefully people's minds are starting to turn a little
- 36:54Speaker 1: bit more of like, oh man, I haven't thought about
- 36:57Speaker 1: this way. I haven't approached it this way. Of course,
- 37:00Speaker 1: we're going to make sure your book own the room
- 37:02Speaker 1: is on our show or our comments links and and
- 37:05Speaker 1: and the websites. But if I'm a business owner or
- 37:08Speaker 1: a leader and I want to have more meaningful conversations
- 37:11Speaker 1: and connections with people, you know, or maybe I miss
- 37:15Speaker 1: something in our conversation today and that you're like, hey, David,
- 37:18Speaker 1: this if nothing else, if the listeners leaning in here today,
- 37:22Speaker 1: what would you encourage them to start doing today that
- 37:24Speaker 1: they could take away apply in their life, Jake, what
- 37:28Speaker 1: we've talked about.
- 37:32Speaker 2: So you're looking for a kind of a one liner
- 37:34Speaker 2: as to do.
- 37:35Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you I mean, start right, well, is
- 37:39Speaker 1: there something that they could do? Like I liked how
- 37:41Speaker 1: you said earlier, Like that one thing you just said
- 37:44Speaker 1: of like looking. If you're talking to somebody and they're
- 37:45Speaker 1: looking away at the camera, that's just an indicator like, hey,
- 37:48Speaker 1: they're disengaging. But for for that business owner, that that
- 37:52Speaker 1: person is really just again not having that. Like you said,
- 37:55Speaker 1: they're not having the effect that they want. You know, Jake,
- 38:00Speaker 1: what would you encourage to do for themselves, like to
- 38:02Speaker 1: look or reflect or assassin themselves?
- 38:05Speaker 2: My big encouragement is to read up on things like
- 38:10Speaker 2: social psychology, which really documents how ninety percent of the
- 38:15Speaker 2: population thinks. You know. Some great authors are Shieldini or
- 38:22Speaker 2: Joonah Berger. You can read their books that are amazing
- 38:26Speaker 2: and they're wonderful. You can also listen to podcasts. My
- 38:30Speaker 2: podcast talks all about this all the time in the
- 38:33Speaker 2: room with Jake Stall, So listen and read on how
- 38:38Speaker 2: to get better because I can tell you communication nobody
- 38:41Speaker 2: masters it. The best we can hope for is that
- 38:44Speaker 2: we were a little better than we were yesterday. So
- 38:48Speaker 2: it's a process. But instead of looking up that cat
- 38:51Speaker 2: video or watching the hockey recat from last night, take
- 38:56Speaker 2: some time listen to podcasts to people that offer what
- 38:59Speaker 2: you need and listen to them because that's going to
- 39:03Speaker 2: be your biggest bang for your buck is just.
- 39:05Speaker 1: Continue to learn. Yeah, and we're gonna put this. We're
- 39:09Speaker 1: gonna put the podcast, Jake, you're part of your podcast.
- 39:11Speaker 1: I'm gonna come on your podcast as well, which would
- 39:13Speaker 1: be a lot of fun, it will. I think you're
- 39:16Speaker 1: right be a lifelong learner, being willing to spend a
- 39:19Speaker 1: little time. And it's it's it's it's hard. We've got
- 39:21Speaker 1: a lot of distractions, a lot of things in our world.
- 39:23Speaker 1: But I think your point, Jake, you know, spending that
- 39:26Speaker 1: time investing yourself is go only in to pay dividends.
- 39:29Speaker 1: And I've seen that first hand. And I'm so grateful
- 39:32Speaker 1: that you came on the podcast today and really shared
- 39:35Speaker 1: your insights with our listeners.
- 39:37Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. And you know what one other
- 39:40Speaker 2: thing is, we often think we're a product of our successes.
- 39:44Speaker 2: I would like people to think about you're really You're
- 39:47Speaker 2: really a product of your mistakes. Your mistakes are what
- 39:51Speaker 2: has gotten you here, and what you learn from the
- 39:55Speaker 2: mistakes is what's created your successes. So when you make
- 39:59Speaker 2: a mistake or you're wrong, don't ever look at it
- 40:01Speaker 2: as God, I'm not good enough, or I should never
- 40:04Speaker 2: be a leader. The fact that you think like that
- 40:07Speaker 2: is exactly why you're good enough and should be a leader.
- 40:11Speaker 2: So take your mistakes, use them as a learning curve,
- 40:14Speaker 2: and forgive yourself at night, because you know what, you're
- 40:17Speaker 2: never going to have that perfect day. So at night,
- 40:20Speaker 2: just take a few minutes and say, you know what
- 40:23Speaker 2: you'd done good today. Tomorrow will try to do better,
- 40:26Speaker 2: and just forgive yourself before you go to bed.
- 40:28Speaker 1: It's very cleansing, beautiful, beautiful. Jake and I can't agree more.
- 40:36Speaker 1: I likening me. Those are just part of our journey,
- 40:40Speaker 1: right and and that's not that's not where we're ending
- 40:44Speaker 1: the story. We're continuing on. And if you want to
- 40:47Speaker 1: continue on with Jake and go check out orchestrate, you know,
- 40:50Speaker 1: we'll put that in the show notes. We'd love to
- 40:52Speaker 1: have you, guys, connect with Jake and and follow up there.
- 40:56Speaker 1: We want you to be owning the room, being that
- 40:58Speaker 1: person that is present, respected and understood, and you're understanding them.
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- 41:15Speaker 1: we're doing with Jake and I would love to have
- 41:17Speaker 1: you guys follow along there as well. Thank you Jake
- 41:19Speaker 1: for being here, mister having me everybody come back and
- 41:23Speaker 1: be well. Thanks so much,