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85: Let’s talk business partnerships and life updates with Lauren · CattleUSA Daily

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Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
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the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the
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updates shaping agriculture today.
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I'm your host Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
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agriculture, here to keep you informed and connected.
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Now let's dive into today's episode.
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Hey y'all, happy Friday. Welcome to another episode of
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the Cattle USA Daily podcast. First and foremost, sorry for
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kind of ghosting you guys this week.
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It Long story short, just was a crazy week from hell, week from
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hell, if I'm being completely honest.
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Sorry about my costar guest in the backseat.
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That will all get explained here in a moment too.
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But so you know those weeks where you're like, I know it's
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going to be, it's OK, it's OK, Go lay down where you know it's
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going to be a busy travel a week.
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And so you've got everything planned out to a tee.
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So on Monday and Tuesday I was going to be gone out of town
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photographing a wedding in Branson, MO.
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So we had our Monday episode, Gary come out.
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Everything was great and grand there.
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Well, Tuesday comes around and I get sicker than Sam.
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Hell, like absolutely on my deathbed.
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We're coming back on Tuesday and I'm like, I am not doing good.
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I'm not doing good in the slightest.
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It was a 5 1/2 hour trip back and just like it started with
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head congestion and like the throat, I felt like I was
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swallowing razor blades. It was not fun.
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And then the second I get home, I, it immediately hit me and I
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think my body just got home and was like, OK, we're home now.
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So we're going to fall apart into a million pieces.
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And that is exactly what happened.
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I was not doing good Tuesday night, had a fever, all of the
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things. And then Wednesday morning I
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wake up and I, I just feel like I'm on my deathbed.
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I'm like, guys, I have not been this sick in so long.
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I'm a person that does not get sick.
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And so when I do, I think my body is like, you know what, You
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don't get sick very often. So when you do get sick, we're
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going to make it just a million times worse for you than it
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could possibly be. And so Wednesday, I was on the
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struggle bus, to say the least. I didn't get out of bed until
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like 11 AM and then by the time I did get out of bed, I made it
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a whole like, you're fine, go lay down.
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I made it a whole like 10 feet to the couch and that was pretty
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much it. I slept all day long.
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I did end up going to the doctor and at first they were like, we
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think you have the I don't know if I can say this if I'm going
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to get like censored, if they'd like hear this word in the
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transcript over there, but it's the C vid.
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They thought I might have had that and which would have been
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so embarrassing because I have not gotten that once in the last
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five years. Never got it.
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I worked as a nurse on a COVID unit floor.
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Never got it. I would have been so
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embarrassed. Like that's honestly
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embarrassing if IN2025I were to get it.
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But apparently there's this new strand out there that like
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mimics the flu and they're calling it like razor blade
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throat. And they're like, we think you
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might have that. Well, thank God, thank God I did
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not have that. But they're like, we also don't
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really know what you have. You have some really nasty viral
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thing because not only did I get sick, my employee Allie, who was
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with me and Branson also got not violently sick.
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And so we were just both on our deathbeds, absolutely worthless
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this week. And so they got me on a steroid
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and they were like, also, you're going out of town.
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So here's some other stuff that if this doesn't work, you don't
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get stuck in an urgent care in the middle of nowhere Wyoming
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for half of a day. But luckily the steroids are
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working. We traveled up to in Wyoming
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yesterday. So that was a 12 hour trip and I
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was still sick. I was feeling much better.
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I didn't have a fever anymore finally broke like my 102 fever
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that I had. But it still was just not not a
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fun travel day. I wouldn't wish traveling sick
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on my worst enemy. It it was not fun in the
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slightest. Even if you have like your
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husband drive, it's still just not fun for anyone involved.
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And so we are up actually in the Bighorn Mountains this weekend.
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We are here with family. This trip has been planned for a
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little while. My in laws actually live here in
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Wyoming and so we are here with them and it has been such a fun
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trip. But also I'm really humbling for
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someone who has not been camping like this, like in a tent
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camping in like 10 years if not longer.
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No, 10 years is probably about right.
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Like 8 to 10 years. I haven't been like camping in a
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tent. Obi Wan, you're fine.
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Go lay down. Go lay down you little anxious
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kid. And so last night we got up
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here, got into the mountain and we have like no service, which
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is absolutely amazing too. So last night we get up, we get
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our tent set up, get everything going and we set up our tent
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that is supposed to be a tent that can fit 2 queen size beds.
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That is not true. It barely fit 1 queen size air
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mattress and it was hilarious just us trying to get that set
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up. And then it was like 3540° last
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night and it was just, it was a humbling experience.
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I, I enjoyed, enjoyed it in hindsight, but it was cold.
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It was cold and I, I was not ready for sleeping on an air
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mattress in a tent in the woods in 30°.
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I, I just, I was not ready for that.
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And so this morning I woke up a little grumpy, but I had my Red
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Bull, Gary and I recorded our podcast for Monday right before
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this. And so he got me all excited
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again. And I was like, you know what,
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we're going to get this Friday episode recorded out to you
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guys, even if it is a little late, but I am finally to a
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point where you guys can hear my voice.
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I don't sound like I smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day.
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And we're going to come on and we're going to have fun.
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The kids and I kids, AKA my dogs and I came into town down the
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mountain about 20 minutes. And we are sitting in the
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parking lot of the bomb guards right now recording these
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podcasts, which just feels very fitting.
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Just feels very fitting. It is Friday, we're bringing the
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Friday energy for you guys, but we're also going to bring like I
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just spent the 1st probably 8 minutes of this episode talking
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about how crazy of a week it has been.
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I am sorry for not bringing you guys any episodes this week.
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I feel really, really terrible about that.
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Not even having any banks for you guys to just be able to
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schedule and throw out, even if they were maybe not as timely or
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things like that. But we are back and next week,
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I'm very excited for it because we have multiple guest episodes
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coming out next week, which is there.
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We have some really good ones lined up, which I'm very, very,
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very excited about, and then some guests that I'm working on
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getting lined up for the next couple weeks.
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It's just going to be really great for all of you guys.
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And I know you're really going to enjoy it.
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But today I wanted to come on and talk about leases in
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partnerships, which I know it's probably like, Lauren, you just
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talked about all of this other stuff, and then you're going to
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talk about leases in partnerships.
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Yeah. You know what, I am?
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I am, because this is an episode that I already had outlined.
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And I was like, you know what? This is something that I'm
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pretty passionate about as far as a business mindset goes, as
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far as just what it means to look at this from a business
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mindset and as a businessman along with a Cat Goldman's
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perspective. And so we're going to be diving
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into that today. And so first and foremost,
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leases and partnerships are so common in the AG industry and
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they're really vital to a lot of operational success.
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And they're really vital to a lot of people being able to
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either start a new venture or do something new or expand their
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operation or stabilize or diversify or whatever that may
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be for you. They're really, really
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important. But we need to walk through
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thinking about it from an outside perspective of is this
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actually worth it and is this actually going to align with my
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future business plans? Is it going to serve my long
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term goals? And with that, what are your
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long term goals? Are you trying to grow?
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Are you trying to diversify? Are you trying to stabilize?
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If you are, does that align with them?
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And if it is just short term cash flow, that's fine, but you
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need to be honest about that. Be honest about why you're
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getting into these certain scenarios, in these certain
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situations. The next thing you need to be
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asking yourself is what is the worst case scenario if I'm
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walking into this partnership? What is the worst possible thing
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that can happen and how are we reacting to that?
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If the market tanks, what if your partner bails?
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What if the landowner dies? Are you still protected in the
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end? And what does that look like for
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you as the partner, as the lease owner, as like whatever
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situation you are in, are you still protected?
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Is your operation protected if the worst case scenario happens?
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And then I also want you to be asking yourself, what are you
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bringing to the table and what is your partner or what is the
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other person that's involved in this bringing to the table?
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Because everyone's bringing something, whether it is sweat
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equity, is it capital, is it cattle, is it land, is it know
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how? What is that?
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And the reality of it is, is someone is always going to bring
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more than the other. It must be clear who is doing
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that and what those things are. The biggest thing about these
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situations is communication. Are you communicating clear and
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effectively with the people that you were entering these
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partnerships with? Because if you're not and if
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you're not communicating it clear, and if it's not in the
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contract, then I can't feel bad for you if shit hits the fan
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because then it was your own damn fault, right?
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At the end of the day, like you have got to have clear
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communication and I am sorry my cold is still kind of hanging
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out a little bit. So sorry if I'm a little sniffly
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and groggy this morning. But the next part I just kind of
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mentioned the contract. So your contract matters.
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And I love that we live in an industry where handshake deals
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can be respected and looked at as a contract in themselves.
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But at the end of the day, you need something in writing.
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You have got, you've got, you've got to put it in writing.
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Even if it is your cousin, your mentor or your best friend, you
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need to be putting it in handwriting.
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And the reality of it is a handshake deal is not business
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strategy. So put it in writing.
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And within that writing, you need these things.
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You need clear timelines and terms.
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So this looks like start and end date and the payment structure.
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You need to find responsibilities.
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Who does because what and when does each person do those
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things? You need exit clauses.
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So what happens? What if a person wants out?
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What does that look like? Have an exit clause in there for
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yourself and the partner. You need dispute resolution in
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there. Don't wait until things go South
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to figure it out. Are you doing mediation?
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Are you? And I highly, highly recommend
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putting dispute resolution and resolution in there and making
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it something like mediation because no one wants to go to
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court. No one wants to go to court.
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Court is expensive. Court is not fun for anyone
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involved. So putting something in there
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like mediation or you are going to have a third party come in
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and you're going to work it through that way #5 I want you
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to have profit and loss splits. So don't just assume 5050.
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If one of you is doing all the labor, if one of you is doing
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all of the things, what does that look like?
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Are you being paid for what you are contributing to the
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partnership? If one person is bringing more,
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like we talked about earlier, is that person being compensated
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for bringing more? And if they're not, is that
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being communicated clearly is a situation where it's OK for the
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first couple years if the split is not 5050 and we're going to
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be doing 7030 or 6040 for these first few years.
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And then you're either the contract is up and you revisit
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the terms or you're putting in your contract that for the first
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year, this is the split, the second year, this is the split
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or these are the pay like all of the things.
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And you also need to have lost splits in there.
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What happens if you don't make money that year?
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What happens if that business or that partnership does not become
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fruitful? And the reality of it is, is in
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a lot of situations, first year partnerships or new business
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plans aren't always profitable in that first year.
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So what does that look like? What are you going to be doing
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in those lost situations as well?
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Who is responsible for paying for that loss?
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How are those lost splits going? Everything like that.
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Next, let's talk red flags because here are there's there's
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the reality of it is, is there are situations and scenarios
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that we don't always know need to be avoided until they are.
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I really want you to avoid vague language like we'll figure it
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out when you were going through a business deal.
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No, not we'll figure it out in the future.
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We'll figure it out right now. Like we, we have a moment.
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Let's talk about it right now. Let's figure it out in this
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moment because it can't be a we'll figure it out or we'll
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cross that bridge when we get there.
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It needs to be done right now. If you don't have a written plan
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for unexpected cost, that is also a big red flag I need in
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your contracts or somewhere. It doesn't even have to be in
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your initial contract, even if it is like an amendum to your
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contract, whatever that is a written plan for unexpected cost
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because the reality of situations are there are
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unexpected cost around every single corner.
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So what are you doing for those unexpected cost?
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Who is paying for them? How are you differentiating if
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it is an unexpected cost that is needing to be paid for by the
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partnership or like how is that all getting figured out?
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You need a written plan for those, not let it be one of the
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situations of we'll figure it out when we get there.
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And then I also really want you to avoid partners who avoid
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accountability or hate discussing finances.
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Discussing finances is uncomfortable.
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Being real about partnerships is uncomfortable.
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There have been, let me think, I have almost entered 3 different
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business partnerships over the last few years that I look back
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on now and I am so glad that I was real with myself in those
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situations and didn't actually sign the contracts, didn't
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continue pursuing those partnerships and either let them
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fizzle out. Had a hard conversation was like
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hey I don't think this is a good fit or whatever that situation
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scenario was because I look at those with hindsight now and I
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am like that would have been a shit show.
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That would have really freaking sucked if I was in a partnership
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with that person because they either were not a reliable
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person, they didn't like talking about finances, they were wishy
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washy about signing a contract, they were just hard to get a
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hold of, hard to work with as a person.
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I had one of those. And I have such a thriving
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business now in one of my businesses that I'm doing all on
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my own that I didn't think I could do on my own, but I am.
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And A, it proves to me that I'm capable of doing really hard
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things myself and I don't always need another person.
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And B, it really re instills the fact that trust your gut on
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these situations. Trust your gut and listen to
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your intuition because you're probably not wrong on that.
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And also allow yourself a lot of time to go through these
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negotiations and have these discussions because if I didn't
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allow myself multiple months to discuss these partnerships and
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these business ideas and these situations with people.
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And I even started like I trialled some stuff with these
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people. Like before we officially
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entered a business plan contract and got all the LLC set up and
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everything like that. We did some test runs.
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Like we did a few little projects that we were like,
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we're just going to see how these go and see if we can work
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together well, see if this is fitting the vibe, everything
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like that. And they didn't go well.
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And it was a situation where I was like, thank God I trialed
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this now and didn't let this be something that I was like, we
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need to get a contract together and sign all this stuff and do
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all of these things. Before I even knew how that
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person worked as a business person.
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Because Oh my gosh, it would be. My life would look very
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different if I was in some business relationships with
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people that weren't good businessmen and weren't just
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good people for me to be working with.
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And I do have some partnerships that are amazing partnerships,
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don't get me wrong. I have three business
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partnerships that are phenomenal.
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Somewhere they're like I am very much in the background.
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I'm more of a silent partner. And then somewhere I am very
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front and center and they are very front and center with me.
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And we have a lot of different situations and dynamics that I
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have really great relationships with.
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So I don't want to say this and turn you guys off from business
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partnerships and relationships because they can be really good
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and really fruitful if they are the right ones, if they are the
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right ones and they're with the right people.
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And you take time to actually let yourself sit in negotiations
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and not try and throw something together in a month and be like
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good enough and just jump into something like this comes from a
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person who patients is not my not my strong suit in the
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slightest. And so taking multiple months to
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do something is really hard for me.
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But I promise it pays off in the end.
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So OK, also talking about things that I want you guys to be
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watching out for, here are some other things.
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So like not necessarily red flags, but just things to be on
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the lookout for. So the too good to be true
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partnership or lease. So if someone is offering you
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land, cattle, whatever it is with no strings attached, you
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need to read the fine print twice and maybe three times and
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then maybe pull out a magnifying glass.
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Because the reality of a situation is you don't want to
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be stuck in a spot where it is hard for you to get out of
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because you didn't read the fine print twice.
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Read the fine print twice and maybe even have a lawyer look
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over it. I highly recommend that if
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you've been listening to us on this podcast and you have that
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team of people, that banker, an attorney, all the things like
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that, reach out to your attorney and be like, Hey, I just, I'm
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going to hand this to you. I want you to look over this and
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please tell me what is good and what is bad.
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Loopholes, all the things. The next thing is the silent
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partner trap. I know I just said that I'm in a
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business where I'm kind of a silent partner, but I want you
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to look at it and see if the person that wants that is just
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in it for the upside but not the involvement.
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This is a situation where it is fine to have a silent partner,
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but those clarifications of expectations need to be set
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early. You need to clarify those
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expectations very, very early and just be clear about that
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communication. The next one is over promised
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profit shares. If someone is sitting next to
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you and they're promising a 30% return in year 1, I would be a
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little concerned about that. I would be sitting there asking
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for receipts. I'm just going to leave it at
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that. I'm not saying it's not
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possible, just ask for receipts and then going into probably the
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one that is the biggest for me is personality clashes.
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A partner who micromanages or avoids conflict or doesn't like
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to talk about finances. All of those things can tank
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progress faster than anything else.
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Absolutely. The first thing that will ruin a
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business is 2 people that just have an inability to work
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together and just don't have the personalities that work together
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well and can build a business well.
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And that is fine. It might be a great business
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idea, but the two of you just aren't the two people to be
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doing it together. So how can we take all of this
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that we talked about today and move forward with confidence,
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move forward with a plan and what can we be doing to walk
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into these leases and these partnerships and everything else
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as a business mindset? Well, and with efficiency.
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First and foremost, I want you to run the numbers.
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And then I want you to run the numbers again.
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And then I think I want you to run the numbers again.
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And then I think I want you to call your banker and have them
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run the numbers because running the numbers will give you
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confidence if yourself and your personality isn't giving you
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confidence in the 1st place. So run the numbers.
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Next, I want you to bring a lawyer.
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Bring in your attorney. It is worth the upfront cost.
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I I'm telling you right now, especially when you're drafting
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contracts and everything like that, there are a lot of amazing
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online tools that can draft a basic contract for you.
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Like if you tell it all the things that you need to be in
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there, it can draft something pretty basic and it might be OK,
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but God forbid you guys sign that contract and then you get
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in a disagreement and you actually need to pull that thing
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out and you're not protected. That is a worst case scenario.
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You could lose an entire business and have nothing to
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show for it all because you didn't spend $1000 to have your
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attorney right up the contract look over agreements and help
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walk you through that in the first place.
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Next, I want you to start with trial runs or short term
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agreements where possible. So this is going back to what I
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said earlier of if you can have a trial run before you sign a
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contract, that is a great situation to get to know how
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that person works as a business person, how your communication
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is going to go, how your personalities are going to work
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together, everything like that. If you can have a trial run or
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if you can have a clause in your agreement that says like the
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first three months is a trial period where like either of us
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can leave no questions asked. And this is what that's going to
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look like. That is.
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Is great. That is awesome.
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Even like if you need to sign a three month contract in the
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beginning where you're just signing three months instead of
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two years, do that. Absolutely do that.
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And then OK, with that, I want you to be brutally honest,
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brutally honest about your risk tolerance and energy bandwidth
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that you have as an individual because we all only have so
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much. We all have a tank and it is
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getting drained in a million places.
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And So what is your risk tolerance?
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What are you willing to risk for this partnership in this
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business to work? And then what is your energy
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bandwidth? What energy do you have to
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provide to this? If this is a situation where you
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need to be providing 10 hours a week to this and you only have 5
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to give, you need to be real honest with yourself and real
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honest with that partner about that.
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Because either that partnership is going to fail and it's you're
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not going to be able to give that 10 hours or something else
20:58
that within your life is going to fail because you're now
21:01
giving 10 hours to this and you're giving less to something
21:03
else. So what is your energy
21:04
bandwidth? And sometimes it, you might be
21:06
in a situation where you have to redistribute your energy for a
21:11
little bit and that's okay. That's absolutely okay there.
21:14
Here's the thing. You're not always going to be
21:16
able to give 100% to everything in your life.
21:18
You're giving 100% to your business.
21:20
You're probably not giving 100% to your family.
21:22
And there is going to be times in seasons where things have to
21:25
flux and you have to fluctuate and move things around.
21:29
And that energy bandwidth is going to move.
21:31
And that's OK. But you need to be brutally
21:33
honest with yourself, with your partner, with your family
21:35
members, everyone around you of what that's going to look like
21:38
next. I want you to document
21:40
everything and document it in writing, in writing, every
21:44
single thing, every single conversation that you get off
21:47
of, if it's a phone call, if it's a meeting, everything like
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that. I have an AI software that in
21:53
the background of my meetings, records all of the meetings A
21:56
and then B gives me like within 5 minutes of the meetings.
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I can have it give me like a meeting summary of takeaways,
22:04
things we talked about, decisions that were made, and I
22:06
can ask it specific questions. And like I've got got it down to
22:09
a point where all I have to do is like generate the thing and
22:12
it gives me an exact summary of everything that I wanted from
22:15
that meeting really quickly. And what I do is immediately
22:18
after that meeting, I go and do that.
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I copy and paste those notes. I send that to that business
22:25
partner or that person that I was on the meeting with, all the
22:27
people I was on the meeting with.
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And I say here is a summary of our meeting.
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If anything is incorrect, looks astride like looks wrong or we
22:36
need to change something, please let me know here and now.
22:38
But here is the summary of our meeting.
22:39
And so I am documenting, A, I'm recording it, but then B, I'm
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also sending that e-mail chain verification.
22:47
I'm documenting even verbal conversations because it is so
22:51
important to cover yourself in those situations because I've
22:54
never had to use anything against myself.
22:56
I've never had to use any of that to be like, no, you said
22:59
this or this is what we discussed, but I have it in case
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I do. And then also that goes back to
23:05
communication. Now I'm presenting myself as a
23:07
good communicator. I'm protecting myself by
23:10
documenting everything, but I'm also communicating well with my
23:12
business, US partners, because I'm showing that like, hey, this
23:15
is what I heard from what you told me, I'm confirming that
23:19
this is correct and that we are all on the same page here and
23:22
that we all know our tasks and our roles correctly after coming
23:25
out of this meeting that like we're ready to go and we're
23:27
ready to handle and communicate the next thing.
23:30
And then that goes into my last point.
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Communicate like your business depends on it because it does.
23:33
Your communication is going to be the make or break for your
23:37
business. If you cannot communicate well,
23:39
your business is going to fail. So I need you to be texting your
23:42
people, calling, emailing over communicate.
23:45
Like be annoying at times because I would rather a
23:50
business partner be all up in my business and sending me things
23:53
all the time and updating me on progress and sending me reports
23:57
and doing all of that then ghosting me for a week.
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And then I'm sitting here like, well, did they do anything this
24:04
week? Did anything get done?
24:06
Is our business growing? Is it failing?
24:09
Do I need to go look at the bank account and make sure we're not
24:11
bankrupt? Like over communicate like your
24:14
life depends on it and like your business does because it
24:17
absolutely does. And that goes in every aspect of
24:19
your life. Just be a good communicator and
24:21
really work on that. So here's the thing at the end
24:24
of the day, guys, Elise, our partnership can unlock growth
24:27
that you can't reach alone. And that is amazing, but only if
24:29
it is structured right and if it is structured smart.
24:32
So be a smart business person and with do not be afraid to
24:37
walk away if the numbers and the vibe just don't feel right, that
24:40
is totally fine to look at that and be like, that's not for me,
24:45
It's not for me. And it is time to walk away.
24:48
And there have been some really hard businesses that I've had to
24:51
give up or that I've had to step back from or I've had to look at
24:55
and be like, you know what? It is not, it's not right now.
24:57
I it's, it's in the back of my mind, but it is not a right now
25:00
thing because it just, it's not working.
25:02
It's either the numbers aren't there or the person isn't or the
25:06
vibe is off. Trust your gut.
25:08
Trust that intuition. If you don't come out of this
25:10
podcast with anything, please just trust your gut and trust
25:12
your intuition and believe in your own ability to gauge
25:16
whether people are in it for the right reasons.
25:18
The thing is, there will always be another opportunity, but
25:21
there will won't always be a way to fix a bad one.
25:24
So with that, don't let yourself walk into a bad opportunity.
25:29
Let yourself sit in that situation.
25:31
Be like, this is uncomfortable right now, but I'm going to walk
25:32
away because if I walk away, I'm saving my energy, my time, my
25:37
financial bandwidth that I have right now to pour into something
25:40
that is so much better, that is coming down the line.
25:43
Because if you get into a bad partnership right now, there
25:45
could be something so much better coming.
25:46
And in six months you're going to look at it and be like, now
25:49
what do I do? This amazing opportunity came to
25:51
me and now, now I can't do it because I'm in this bad
25:55
situation that I rushed into. So really realize that there
25:59
will always be another opportunity, but there isn't
26:02
always a way to fix a bad one. Leases and partnerships can be a
26:05
great thing if done right and if done well.
26:08
And I have seen first hand the ability to have great ones and
26:14
to just have a really successful business because of these
26:17
things. And so I want you all to have
26:19
that as well. And so take this podcast episode
26:21
and let it be your sign and your situation where you can look
26:25
back on, look back on your life, look back on your businesses and
26:27
really analyze everything, analyze what you were going
26:30
through, analyze situations and be like, OK, we're going to take
26:34
the time to do this and we're going to take the time to do it
26:36
right. And this is what that's going to
26:38
look like because it can be truly amazing and it can be
26:41
truly fruitful if it is done right.
26:43
So I hope you guys enjoyed this little chit chat today.
26:46
And my probably 10 minutes I spent at the beginning.
26:49
I'm just updating you guys on life and everything that is
26:52
going on right now. I hope you all have a great
26:55
Friday. This is I'm recording this mid
26:57
morning on Friday and I'm doing it with my hotspot again in the
27:01
bomb guards parking lot. So hopefully I'm able to get
27:04
this out by early this afternoon for everyone and you guys can
27:07
just get updated on everything that's going on and we can talk
27:10
about leases and partnerships and where the hell has Lauren
27:13
been all week and get you guys a Friday episode so that you can
27:16
end your week on a positive note on some uplifting stuff.
27:19
And at the end of the day, guys, I, I am just so grateful for all
27:24
of you for this podcast, for the opportunity to come on and just
27:28
chit chat with all of you guys about things in AG, things about
27:31
business and bring on some amazing guests for you guys.
27:35
And it wouldn't be possible without all of you guys as our
27:37
listeners. And I am really, really, really,
27:40
really just grateful and I hope that you all take some time this
27:43
weekend to go do something fun, go do something enjoyable, go
27:47
enjoy the amazing weather that you are having.
27:50
I know Wyoming is having great weather this weekend.
27:52
Even though I froze my tush off last night and I was freezing my
27:56
tush off this morning, it is getting better and it is
27:59
supposed to be in the 70s on Saturday.
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And so I just keep on reminding myself about that.
28:04
I started this morning with four layers on and now I'm down to 2
28:08
and I'm even about to shed my sweatpants that are over my
28:10
leggings, so is up to 62°, which I think is just perfect weather
28:16
up here in the mountains. Now that is 62° at the bottom of
28:19
the mountain. I don't know if it's going to be
28:20
62° when I go back up the mountain here in a little bit,
28:22
but I'm going to enjoy it while I can.
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And I hope that you all take some time this weekend.
28:27
Go enjoy some time with your family.
28:29
Go do something that just lights your soul on fire and that can
28:32
bring back some amazing energy into your week.
28:36
Next Monday. And we recorded a podcast with
28:38
Gary today for all y'all next Monday.
28:41
And let's just say that it's going to be a great 1.
28:43
Gary and I are bringing in some really awesome fun facts.
28:48
And then we're talking hurricane season.
28:49
We're talking the weather that we're having right now and
28:53
everything else that that is bringing with it.
28:54
The cycle, the LRC cycle, what all of that means, all that
28:57
jazz. So make sure you look out for
28:59
that on Monday. And I hope you all have a great
29:01
rest of your weekend. And we will talk to you all on
29:04
Monday. I hope you all have a good one
29:05
and we'll see you later.