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Beyond Basketball: Championship Lessons for Success, with Tyler Summitt (Leadership, Sports, Personal Development, Business) · The Action Catalyst

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Stephanie Maas: Hey, Tyler, how are you?
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Tyler Summitt: Good, how you doing?
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Stephanie Maas: I'm good. It's super nice to meet you.
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Tyler Summitt: Absolutely likewise. Thanks for having me
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on.
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Stephanie Maas: So I'm not from Tennessee. I don't know anything
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about basketball. I know your mom is ridiculously respected. I
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know enough to know that.
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Tyler Summitt: You know what's awesome. I love that. You know
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why I love that? Because I love talking to people that have not
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heard of mom. Because a lot of times, if people have heard of
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Mom, it's like, oh yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that
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story. But when we do things for the past summit foundation or
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the past summit leadership group, and people don't hear
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about mom, a lot of times, they their their life is just changed
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in a way where, if they'd heard about mom over time, it's like,
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okay, but when somebody gets smacked in the face with some
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Pat Summit it's pretty cool. What happens? Heck, we just, we
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just got a testimonial. I'm it's on my desk right now. I didn't
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go and start like this. How cool is this? This is a testimonial
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for the past summit leadership group and the online program.
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It's this program. It's like an eight hour course on the
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definite dozen. And my mom, you get certified in my mom's
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definite dozen, her 12 principles for success. This is
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from the financial industry. This is an IT. Listen to this
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testimonial, testimony says I was not from Tennessee. I didn't
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really follow sports. Okay, sound familiar? I was a little
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skeptical when this past summit online leadership program was
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introduced, thinking, How is a basketball coach going to teach
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me an IT leader? I wasn't sure I would connect with her, but I
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was sorely mistaken. I found that the way she loved and
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invested in her people was exactly how I felt a leader
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should be, and I found myself wanting to be more like her and
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to see the impact that she had on her people, even decades
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after they're gone from Tennessee, basketball cemented
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for me that how you treat people and lead people for the good or
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the bad will follow them for the rest of their lives. It makes me
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strive every, every day, to be the type of leader that impacts
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my team in a positive way, and I am more careful in the choices I
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make daily. There you go.
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Stephanie Maas: Awesome. Okay. With that being said, I want you
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to start from scratch, start at the beginning.
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Tyler Summitt: Yeah, absolutely. My mom was just a winner. I
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don't know how to put it. She was a winner. And it wasn't just
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on the court, it was off the court. I mean, she literally
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retired as the winningest coach in the industry, and so retire
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with more wins than anybody, men or women. She was labeled the
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coach of the century. That one always gets me still like Coach
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of the century, like for whoever's listening to this,
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take your title and put of the century out of it. Maybe you're
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the salesperson. What if you're the salesperson of the century?
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You know? Maybe you're the stay at home. Mom, what if you're a
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stay at home? Mom, of the century. Is that not crazy? I
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mean, of the century. And she got the Presidential Medal of
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Freedom, highest civilian honor that you can possibly get. She
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was top 50 female leaders in the country, like leader, not
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sports. For those of you that aren't sports people, this ain't
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about sports. It's about life, you know, and my mom got every
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accolade you can imagine, gave keynotes, did so much for
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women's sports, yes, but women in general, and honestly,
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leadership and so it really, really proud of her. It started
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when she was on a dairy farm. You know, she was so shy, like,
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if you had met my mom back then, I'm told that you would not
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think this was gonna be somebody that went on to become a
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celebrity. You know, one story that she liked to tell about how
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shy she was is when she was playing in the Olympics, and so
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my mom is the head coach at Tennessee, but playing in the
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Olympics, there's no WNBA, there's no professional women's
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professional basketball. They'd take college players and a head
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coach to go play in the Olympics for the 1976 How crazy is that
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my mom ended up becoming the first American to win an Olympic
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medal as both a player and a coach. And so she's playing in
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the Olympics. And again, this is going to tell you who my mom was
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back in the day, first game with her teammates, first team with
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her coaches, and her dad comes to watch. He was a six foot five
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tobacco farmer. I mean, this guy is scary. This guy is, like,
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legit, and he's in the first. Front row, and he's up there and
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he's yelling, rebound. Trish. Trish, rebound. My mom's full
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name is Patricia, and her family called her Trish, not Pat.
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Nobody knows that my mom's name, I mean, they all think this is
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Pat. You know, they use Pat. So it's like, Who's this guy
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yelling at? So my mom's playing hard, but she said one of her
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teammates that game had like 30 rebounds. For those who don't
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know basketball, 30 rebounds, it's crazy. And so my mom said
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this teammate of hers had like 30 rebounds. That teammates name
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was Trish Roberts. Trish Roberts thought this scary six foot five
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tobacco farmer was gonna kill her if she didn't rebound.
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Right? I tell that story because it shows who my mom was, this
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shy farm girl, to be honest with you, that was too shy to correct
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people at age 18, and she was too shy to do that, and now we
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all know her as Pat Summitt, and I think that's just a message to
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anybody listening. I don't know what you're going through in
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life, but I know that my mom's story can help you, because she
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has gone through so many things that we're going to talk about,
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you know, on this podcast, that it just shows you if you can do
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things the right way, if you can make winning an attitude, if you
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can be it's a mindset you can control. It's in your control.
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It's just a testament to what you can accomplish in life. My
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mom went on to do all those things, but she had to go
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through the wall of being shy. She had to attack that head on.
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And so that gives you a kind of like, where did she come from,
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and then who did she become, and how did she do it? So maybe that
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was a good place to start.
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Stephanie Maas: Fantastic place to start. Okay, so incredible
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icon. What's this Pat Summit Leadership Group, PSLG?
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Tyler Summitt: Yeah, that's a great question. It is an
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organization that I co founded so that people did not miss out
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on knowing who my mom was, but more importantly, on learning
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from her and helping themselves in their own life. You know, I
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think there's certain figures that that can just impact
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people. They're almost like, you know, you hear their story and
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you see what they've done, it's like, oh my gosh, you just
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believe and my mom was just one of those people. And so, you
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know, as an only child, I wanted to make sure people continued to
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be successful, and it's happening. Listen, I read you
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that testimonial from the financial industry. I mean,
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we've got entertainment industry. Dollywood's gone
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through, finance industry, restaurant groups, construction
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companies, healthcare, stay at home, parents, you name it.
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Every industry is going through the trainings and listening to
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keynotes and going through in person workshops and going
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through online programs and all the above. We're reading books.
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My mom is still impacting people right now, today, we're all over
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the place, and we're helping people in every industry. So
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it's, it's so cool. What's happening? It's my mom's
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definite dozen the book she wrote back in the 90s is 12
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principles for success. Everything's based off of that,
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and that's what she attributes her success to. And it's
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applying that to, okay, and your company. How does that apply?
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And again, it's changing lives for the better. And as you can
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imagine, as the only child, I mean, I just enjoy, I thoroughly
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enjoy seeing people improve through my mom's legacy.
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Stephanie Maas: Ok, so drill down with me. So you're saying,
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hey, it's these 12 principles. Where did these come from? What
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are the real life applications, what are some of the takeaways
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that you have seen be so meaningful and impactful for
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folks?
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Tyler Summitt: Absolutely. So my mom had a recipe for success.
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It's that definite dozen. Now, when she wrote it, actually sat
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down and wrote the book, she had already won three national
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championships. She ended up winning five more. And so the
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definite doesn't. It's not like my mom reinvented the wheel for
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leadership. You know? It's things like communication,
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respect, teamwork, hard work, things like that. And so there's
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these skills, though, that it seems like we're losing in
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today's day and age, right? Because of cell phones, because
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all the noise and emails and the news and all this stuff the
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past. Summit leadership group uses a variety of different
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methods, in person, training online, to come and say, Okay,
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here's the right way to do things. Here's how you can treat
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people the right way. Here's how you win in life with people. So
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again, what are the real life applications? Well, the first
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thing that's really taken off is when you go through our online
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programs, and we have multiple we have one that's just overall
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leadership definite does, and we have one that's a power of teen.
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We have one that's specific for women's leadership. So no matter
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who you are, what industry you're in, there's one for you.
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And what we've seen is, is when people go through that and they
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spread it out over six months or a year, habits are formed,
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right? And it's great to say, here are my goals, but let me
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just watch you for a day, and I'll tell you who you are. Let
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me watch your habits. Let me watch what you do do. I don't
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need you to tell me about you know what you plan to do and
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what you're thinking about, and what you tweeted you were going
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to do, and what you told your friend you were going to do, and
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what your New Year's resolution. I don't know any of that. I need
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to see what you do with your habits, and then I'll tell you
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who you are and what you're going to accomplish, and if
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you're going to accomplish the goals or not. And so that's what
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the online program does. Our online programs, you can go the
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website and look them all up. It'll take you through over
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time, self paced, bite sized learning, and you learn, okay,
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this is how I build habits, and so great place to start is right
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there, with the website going checking out those online
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programs.
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Stephanie Maas: So you said something super keen, and we've
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talked a lot about this in the podcast, is there is, without a
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doubt, there's so much conversation and content around
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developing leadership skills and developing leaders. And I think
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this is part of what makes your mom's story so unique. She was
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on that cutting edge where a lot of leadership was really
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management. They didn't call people leaders. So I would
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imagine just simply the fact that she approached what she did
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and how she did what she did from a leadership mentality
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really made her stand out, because even coaches, they were
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managers back in the day, that's how you led, is through managing
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people, telling them what to do. It was very different. Well,
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then we had this tremendous growth of folks like your mom,
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that really took management and transitioned it into true
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leadership. It's inspiring. It's the Stephen Covey's the Pat
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Summit. It is really looking at things and learning different
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what to me, is so interesting. It's like over the last several
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years that has fallen to the wayside, because exactly what
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you said, the distractions of technology and we are really
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seeing this thirst and desire and avoid in this next
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generation of leadership that truly they know the term, they
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know how to describe leadership, but they haven't experienced it,
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and they certainly don't know how to implement it. What I'm
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hearing from you is this is an opportunity in an organization
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that's committed to bringing that back and showing folks this
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is how you develop, because leadership, it's this absolute
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science, and I think that's what I'm hearing from you, is your
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mom figured that out and is able to translate that to the masses.
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Tyler Summitt: No, you couldn't be more right. I mean, we every
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day, and that's why I love the past and leadership, we attack,
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we absolutely attack the things that technology is trying to do
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to us, that negative news is trying to do, that all the noise
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is trying to bring on us that, you know, everybody's trying to
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play the game. Look at me. Look at me. Look at your competing
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and keeping up with the Joneses. And it's just like, ah, there's
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so much noise we all know. Honestly, I think we all know
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what we need to do. But are you doing it? You know, are you
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doing it for the people around you? And yes, people we're
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seeing with, with companies that bring us in and like, hey, we
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need help on loyalty and retention. And it's like, okay,
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well, they're not leaving your company. They're leaving your
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leaders. They're not being led. They're not being invested in.
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They're not improving. They don't see a future here. And mom
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was so magical at this. Strategy is a word that we throw around a
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lot. Let's do a SWOT analysis, and let's do all this
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complicated stuff. Hold on a second. Let's boil strategy
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down. Because my mom was magical at this. She was she was a
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master at this. She had to do this over and over again. In
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games, she'd have 90 seconds. In a basketball game, there's a
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time out. It lasts 90 seconds, Max, some of them 30 seconds.
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And she'd have to bring everybody in. She'd have to
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listen to assistant coaches real quick, her staff, her C suite,
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then she'd have to go into a huddle again. All this in 90
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seconds, get everybody organized. Say, Okay, here's
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what we're going to do, here's how we're going to do it, and
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here's why we're going to do it. Here's why it's going to work.
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It made them believe in it. And then she'd say, Okay, now let's
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go. And then she'd have to do it again. She have to do it and
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again. In the game. And then in her career, you gotta think, and
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a college team, you lose 25% of your seniors, they leave. So you
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25% of your team every year, and they're like your leaders.
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You're not losing front line. So she's losing 25% every year and
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bringing in 25% which are rookies, fresh out of high
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school. So every year she had to go through strategy, what, how
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and why. And I think we're talking about leadership. I
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think we're losing sight of making sure everybody has the
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why, and we've, you know, we've heard TED Talks and we've read
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it, but I don't know your why. But do you do it like I'm
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challenging the people listen to this? Do you do that in every
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area of life. Do you do it in your faith? I don't care what
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your faith is. Mom is a Christian, I'm a Christian, but
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whatever that is for you. Do you have that like you have a
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strategy for your faith? We all have mission statements at work.
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Do you have a position statement for your life? What about your
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family? You have kids? Your kids know why they're here. Do they
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know how to be successful? They know what they're trying to do.
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What about your significant other. Do you know what you're
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trying to accomplish? Do you know why you have that
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relationship? Do you have a joint statement where it's like,
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this is what we're trying to do? My mom did it over and over and
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over again. It was so simple, but everybody bought in because
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she was a leader. And here's the secret sauce, she would help
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them with the what, the how and the why. Okay, before a season
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even. Started the what, let's start with the what. She would
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say, okay, the what was usually a national championship. And she
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got eight of them, which is a lot. So she would take them
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through sometimes different things before a season, before a
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game even started, she always say, okay, what are we trying to
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accomplish? National Championship? All right, let's
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go through the National Championship celebration. They
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haven't even played a game yet, and she says, We're going to
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celebrate this year's national championship that they haven't
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won yet. And she goes, Okay, we're all going to walk in a
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line like this. All right. Now you're going to sit in this
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order. But okay, good. The band is on the left. Imagine them
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there. The all the fans are on the right. Okay, now, here's
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what, here's the speech. I'll talk first, you're captain. You
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talk second, the banner is going up right here. Hey, tomorrow,
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does everybody have a suit and a dress? We're going to the White
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House to meet the President tomorrow, because we won the
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national championship. She's literally doing daily
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affirmations. I mean, this is in the 80s and 90s, so before our
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time, she's literally taking them through daily affirmations.
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It's like it already happened. It's like they already won in
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April, but it's August. And then, I mean, they're, they're
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months and months and months and months from even that game. They
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don't even know if they're gonna make it to that game. Everybody
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knew the what now let's go the hat. Okay, she would have her
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players lay down on the court and visualize what they were
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gonna do in the game the next day. And listen, that was a lot
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for a coach to do that, because you only got an hour for
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tournament practices, which is not a lot for a practice. You
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only got an hour. She would seemingly waste practice time to
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have them lay on the court, close their eyes and visualize
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but it worked, and they beat the competition, and they were
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successful. Do you do that in your life? Are you doing that
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with your team? Are you doing that with your family? Are you
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doing that with your peers? Do you wake up and have a horny
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routine? That's what we're trying to help people do before
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you look at the phone and you look at the noise and you look
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at all this stuff, you've got to take control of your life.
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You've got to take control of your team before we go through
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the emails and you've got to take control and say, This is
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what we're doing, how we're doing let's go to the why,
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because it's the most important point. Everybody knows that. But
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listen to what my mom did. My mom would have one on one
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meetings with everybody in the organization, everybody, and it
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took some time, and everybody's like, I don't have time, trust
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me, you have time for this. You have time to have one on one
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meetings with the people around you. If you don't have time for
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that, then come on, turn off the TV, turn off the emails, turn
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off the shows, whatever you're doing, get off of Twitter and
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all the social media and have a real conversation with somebody
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and say, Okay, why are you doing this? Why are you at our
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company? What's the goal? What do you want? Why are you here?
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Like, why? Like, tell me your why. And my mom would do that
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with each player. She would know that player number one wanted to
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go on and play professionally. She want to go overseas. She
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want to travel the world playing basketball. She'd know that
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player number two just wanted to make your family proud. That's
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it. She didn't want to go on and play pro. She wanted to do a
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career, something else. And so what if my mom tried to do the
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same speech to both of them? What if my mom tried to motivate
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them the same way? What if my mom just came in like a cookie
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cutter and like some managers, and said, All right, here's what
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we got to do. Go and that's it. No, my mom would she still do
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the what and the how? But then she go to player one, she said,
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Hey, she would she whisper. She said, Hey, there's going to be
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pro scouts at that game tomorrow. You've got this.
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You've got this. Your dreams are coming. She go to player number
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two, and she'd say, hey, hey, the game's on national TV
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tomorrow, your family's going to be so proud of you. You've
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earned this. It was magical that just that small little 10
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seconds to each individual reinforcing their why and their
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why fit under the company. Why the business? Why the
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organizations? Why, if we win as a team, everybody else
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accomplishes their goals and really caring about people. Mom
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loved the quote, people do not care about how much you know
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until they know how much you care. My mom cared. I mean, she
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cared about people so much, and so I think that's a real life
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example of something my mom did over and over and over every
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year.
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Stephanie Maas: I don't want to oversimplify this. I think you
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just hit something that is so clutch. People know their what,
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and it's not hard for them to figure out what their what is.
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They sometimes think they know their why, but it's not until
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they really share it with somebody else and drill down
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into the details. Does it really come to life? Which, when it
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comes to life, it becomes meaningful, but that middle
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piece of the how that is where I think so many folks don't know,
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and what I'm really hearing is this mission this group is to
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bridge that gap. You think you know what you want, you think
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you know why. And we're going to expand on all that. But most
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importantly, let me show you how.
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Tyler Summitt: Absolutely. And I think what comes into mind
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when you say the how is, are you willing to sit there and do all
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the, you know, analyzing, all the stuff you want to do, but
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then can you simplify it? And can you say, Okay, here's what
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I'm going to do every single day. Mom had certain things she
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did every single day, and she was just consistent with that.
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She was always trying to improve those areas. She was trying,
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okay, let me, let me improve this one a little bit, let me
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improve this and all. But there were certain things that she did
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where she knew if I do these things, I might not win every
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game. Right? My mom didn't win every game, but she was a
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winner. And over time, if you're willing to do that, you're
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willing to do the things that other people aren't willing to
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do, you're eventually going to get things that other people
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aren't willing to get. I mean, our world's competitive. I'm
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just being honest. Really, it doesn't matter about other
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people, you know, they're they're competitive. It matters
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about yourself. Are you competing? They'd be the best
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person that you can be? Are you the best version of yourself?
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And that, again, is what mom did so well, and she knew how to do
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it, and then she helped other people know how to do it. You
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know, it's crazy, too. You talk, you talk about teen, you know,
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there's a there's research on this, and I've heard it various
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different ways, but if you just have an idea, just like I kind
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of want to do something you actually have a small chance of
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accomplishing. It's like 10% like, where it's just, I got an
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idea like this, you know, I could do this. And that's not
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bad. Like, one in 10 shot, if I just think it's something, you
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know, okay, if you create a SMART goal, and we all have
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heard that ad, you know, specific, measurable, make sure
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it's time out. If you do that, okay, it goes up. If you set a
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how, like, how you're going to do it, the process, it actually
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goes over 50% so that's what gets you over 50% but if you set
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up weekly accountability meetings with other people and
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say, hey, check in on me on this, hold me accountable to
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this. And you actually attend those meetings and they're
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holding you accountable, you have over a 90% success rate. So
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you have the what you know your why you got the how that got you
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over the hump. Make sure there's other people around you, you
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know. Show me the cry, people you surround yourself with, yada
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yada yada, and we all know that. But do you do it? Do your
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friends know what you want to accomplish? Your friends know
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your dreams. You know their dreams. Are you holding
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accountable? Are you helping each other make good decisions?
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Same with your family, same at work. This is every area of
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life. That's what I'm trying to say the past seven leadership
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group. It's about life. This is legit, and I've seen it work
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because I grew up with it, and I saw one of the biggest winners
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of our time, and how she had an attitude, and how it was in her
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control, and how she helped others do it. And so yes, you
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were exactly spot on the what, the how and the why, bridge and
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the gap, and then, and then having other people to help you
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accomplish it with the past, some leadership group. I've seen
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it help in times when times are really, really hard. I don't
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know life is this way. We're either coming out of a crisis.
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We're in a crisis right now, or about to go into one. Maybe
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you're in one right now, and you're trying to get a little
22:19
something, you're trying to get a little motivation, you're
22:21
trying to learn everything's been learn everything's been
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good. You might be going into one, I hope it's really far from
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now. The Pat Summitt leadership group, we want to help you be
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ready for those situations. We want to help you in life. We
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want to help you prepare for those things that you just don't
22:34
see coming when life just smash you in the face.
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Stephanie Maas: Meaningful. Okay, slightly off topic, did
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you play sports growing up?
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Tyler Summitt: I did. I played a little bit of everything. You
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know, actually, one of my mom's favorite stories was the story
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about me playing soccer. And this story goes into it shows
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who my mom is and how much she's willing to change and improve
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over time. So you gotta understand, I'm playing soccer.
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I'm like five, but at that point, my mom's already done a
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lot of the things. Like, she's already been coaching for
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decades. She's already on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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She's already known throughout the state of Tennessee. It's
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like, you know, nowadays it's Pat Peyton, Dolly and Elvis.
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Those are, like, the four first name people that you'd at least
23:15
heard of if you're in the state of Tennessee, right? And so
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she's already that. She's already celebrity. She's already
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the greatest coach, the greatest in her industry, but she comes
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this five year old soccer game, and, you know, I'm out there
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playing on the first half. It's her first game, my first game,
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every you know, and so everything's new. So I'm out
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there playing, I come over at halftime, and I say, okay, Mom,
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how'd I do? And she said, You did all right. And you're, you
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know, Seth, you're, you're learning my mom. Now, you know,
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that's not my mom, like you're starting to learn. Like, it
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doesn't sound like a past something thing to say. So I was
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like, now, come on, mom. Like, how'd I do? She said, Well,
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you're not being aggressive, not impacting the game. You just
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stand in there. Like, do something. Go that way. Go
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there, go left, go right. You know, do something. I'm like,
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okay, okay, I'm gonna help my team. Okay, so I go back out
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there. Second half, I'm everywhere. I am in line to in
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line, sideline to sideline. I'm all over the place, and so I'm
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winding I come over, I'm breathing, come back over to my
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head coach, and we get in our huddle, and he was not happy
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with me. He was actually really upset at what I just done in
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that second half. So I'm confused. Now I walk slowly over
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mom. I'm very confused as like, okay, Mom, you tell me to be
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more aggressive. My coach just told me I was playing out of my
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position. My mom did not realize I was the goalie in the car ride
24:37
home. I i explained that as a mom, yeah, I was, I was the
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goalie, and she's, does that matter? And so, you know....
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Stephanie Maas: That's awesome.
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Tyler Summitt: It don't matter your position at basketball, or
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you you're up and down, you're side to side. So clearly, coach
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of the century hadn't learned soccer yet. But reason I tell
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that story, the reason she told that story, is what she did
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after my mom coaches. Century. Took pen and paper. She goes to
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a 23 year old assistant soccer coach at Tennessee. That soccer
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coach went on to be the head coach. She's a Texas now she's
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the head coach of Texas, so she knew what she was talking about,
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but my mom didn't know that she's 23 and so my mom goes and
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sits down pen and paper, says, Hey, can you teach me soccer?
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And starts taking notes. Then that tells you how much my mom
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was investing in family, and she knew how to be a good mom, but
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then she started taking notes on team bonding exercises, how to
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build culture. See, soccer has more players than basketball, so
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my mom's thinking, if it'll work for 20 people, it'll work for my
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10 players. Starts taking notes. My Mom won two more national
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championships after that, after taking notes like that, using
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some of those team bonding exercises, using some of those
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things that help your culture, and needed them too. With that
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2007 2008 national championship back to back, she needed some
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those personalities didn't mix at the beginning. A lot of
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people don't know that, but those teams needed some of that,
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and she used that. So again, I asked, Are you open to change?
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Are you comfortable being uncomfortable? Think about how
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uncomfortable you would be if you are whatever you are of the
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century. You're the best. And you go there and you're taking
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notes to 20 something, and you're taking notes and you're
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going back to where the industry you're really good at, you're
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applying it. I mean, how open to change could you possibly be?
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And so that I asked somebody listen like, Are you resisting
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change? Is there somewhere in your life, career, home, maybe
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in your health? I don't know. Are you resisting change? That's
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what we enjoy helping with. That's what mom enjoy helping
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people with, being comfortable, being uncomfortable, being
26:39
comfortable with change. That was one of the things my mom was
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actually consistent. At. Sounds weird. She was consistent being
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uncomfortable. She was consistent changing and always
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trying to get better. So that was a long winded answer to say.
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Did I play sports? But yes.
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Stephanie Maas: That's awesome. This has been so meaningful. You
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know, I could have gone online and read her bio, but hearing
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you talk about her super meaningful. And I think it
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really shows again. One of my favorite quotes that you quoted
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was people don't care how much you know until they know how
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much you care, and this really brings that to light. Yes,
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you're honoring your mom without a doubt, but you're also really
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putting into others to better their lives, an amazing woman.
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Thank you for helping me get to know her today.
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Tyler Summitt: Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me.