Perspective & Vision - Interview w/Jay Owen
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00:00:30 Justin Winstead
All right, welcome to the Improver Network podcast.
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I am Justin Winstead, your host, and I have an extremely special guest joining us today.
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His name is Jay Owen welcome Jay to the podcast.
00:00:45 Jay Owen
Hey Justin, thanks for having me.
00:00:46 Justin Winstead
Man so pumped up to have you on here.
00:00:49 Justin Winstead
You and I met a few years ago and it's been really neat continuing to connect with you year over year and just see the different journeys that we've been on professionally and personally.
00:00:59 Justin Winstead
We share a lot in common, but we're also different enough that we see things from different angles and perspectives and.
00:01:06 Justin Winstead
Always appreciated being able to connect with you, whether it be at conferences or through things like this.
00:01:10 Justin Winstead
It's been awesome so really glad to have you home.
00:01:14 Jay Owen
I'm sure glad to.
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Be here.
00:01:15 Justin Winstead
Yeah, and so today I definitely got a topic that we're going to be getting into and really excited to hear your ideas and your angle on it.
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But first, I know you will, but all of our people don't, so I want them to get to know you a little bit.
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So just to start out with, don't you just tell us a little bit about yourself, as little or as much as you want to personal life into our professional life?
00:01:36 Jay Owen
Well, you know I would say that you know building business can be really hard work and an overwhelming over time I've had the opportunity to work on the same business for a very long time.
00:01:46 Jay Owen
So I started the business that I run today when I was 17 years old, which as of the recording of this podcast was about 23 years ago and we've grown every year.
00:01:56 Jay Owen
Since the beginning, where our focus is pretty simple, we help other people grow their businesses, which is an exciting mission because we're helping all kind of people accomplish their vision and mission and purpose.
00:02:09 Jay Owen
And the way that we do that is by helping them get attention and acquire customers.
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I always say marketing can be confusing and expensive.
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We make it clear and effective so you can get attention and acquire customers.
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So we do that by planning messaging and strategy.
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Producing things like websites and videos and then promoting them through things like social media and Google.
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And painted ads and SCO and all the other things.
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But that's all I've ever done on the business side.
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And then on the personal side along.
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The way I always.
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Say that there's more to life than just work and I love to work.
00:02:41 Jay Owen
I I am fortunate to get to do a lot of work that I'm really passionate about, but I'm even more passionate about my family.
00:02:47 Jay Owen
So I've got five kids who right now range in age from 9 to 17.
00:02:53 Jay Owen
Just drop the three boys off this morning actually to go to summer camp, which is kind of fun and I'm I'm married to my wife, Claire for 19 years.
00:03:02 Jay Owen
And so next year is the Big 20.
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Which is kind of fun.
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And so along the way, you know that's my desire is to build a great business that empowers other people to live out their dreams and build a great family along the way that enjoys decades of lifelong memories.
00:03:18 Justin Winstead
Man, that is fantastic.
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So you already have your trip plan for the 20th, yet you know a lot of us other people.
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We travel to your home state of Florida for things like that, but you already.
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Live in Florida.
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So do you know where you're going yet?
00:03:30 Jay Owen
Yeah, we do get to live.
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In a beautiful place.
00:03:32 Jay Owen
It does get pretty hot this time of year.
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But other than that, it's it's great.
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We're not sure yet.
00:03:37 Jay Owen
We're still not talking about it.
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We might do Hawaii.
00:03:39 Jay Owen
We've not done Hawaii yet.
00:03:40 Jay Owen
It's one of the few states I've been to.
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It's hard about.
00:03:44 Jay Owen
Hawaii is like we have so many great Caribbean islands that are like an hour and a half plane ride and I never was bigger and all.
00:03:50 Jay Owen
That, but I.
00:03:51 Jay Owen
Don't know we might.
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We might do that.
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We're still figuring out.
00:03:55 Justin Winstead
Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
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Well, we will not.
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It won't be an anniversary trip, but we'll like should be in your neck of the woods next week.
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We're going to be traveling out to Destin and out of Miramar Beach and hanging out there for a few days.
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But then we're serving with a group called Lighthouse Family retreats.
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I don't.
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So if you've ever heard of those, but they're really neat, they do a ton of weeklong retreats there in Florida, and they take families who have a kid that's going through.
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Like a terminal illness or a cancer of some tight and they give them a free beach retreat just to go and be a family.
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Because these families are so caught up in all the medical such their families like ours.
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And we pay a little bit of extra to stay there, and then we serve them that we can.
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That's how they can afford.
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To do it for free so it'll be a really neat week.
00:04:39 Justin Winstead
It's it's great for our listeners out there.
00:04:41 Justin Winstead
One of these I encourage you to do is take those fine anniversary and family trips that are just pure enjoyment.
00:04:46 Justin Winstead
Slow the RPMS down and enjoy life, but also if you have the opportunity to take additional trips that include you know mission or I know you and your family, you guys.
00:04:56 Justin Winstead
Have served and then lots of different mission trips and things like that too.
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I think that's that's really rewarding as well, so.
00:05:03 Justin Winstead
That's fun stuff, man.
00:05:04 Justin Winstead
Well, tell me something good like just tell me something good that's happened lately.
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Something you're grateful for something that positive that's just going on in the life of jail.
00:05:15 Jay Owen
You know, just this morning I was reviewing our weekly reports from our team here at the agency.
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We get those.
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I get those every Monday. It pops in my inbox and kind of gives a status on where people are at. It's kind of a green, yellow, red :) to sad face on on.
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Uhm, their workload, their stress and the morale.
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And it's just been green for quite a while.
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We had an awesome company retreat just a couple of weeks ago.
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Got to take our whole team except for a couple who were.
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Out on maternity.
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Leave and their spouses and an awesome trip up to Lakeland year up in Georgia and you know, I just feel like I've been through many years of difficult team stress.
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And I'm seeing lots of other people go through a lot of that right now.
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'cause this is a tough time.
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You know people.
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Are losing team members a lot of turnover?
00:06:03 Jay Owen
All these kinds of things, and we've just been really blessed to not have that.
00:06:07 Jay Owen
And I'm wildly thankful for it, and it's really good to just have a team where I walk in and like.
00:06:12 Jay Owen
Man, I love being with these people.
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It's fun, we get great work done and.
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That's a big win.
00:06:17 Justin Winstead
Man, that's also you've probably had some times in your past where there was maybe some yellows and Reds on that weekly or not, all greens, right?
Oh yeah, plenty plenty of.
00:06:25 Jay Owen
Seasons of those things, and you know, and those are just opportunities to get better.
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You just look at it and go right.
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Let's sit down and talk about it and figure out how we fix.
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And you build.
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A high level of trust and thankfully, right now we're in a season of green, so you got to enjoy the.
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Mountain tops where they last.
00:06:39 Justin Winstead
Man, that's right.
00:06:41 Justin Winstead
So so that in especially if people like me and you who we love to always push it to the next level, you know we've got a thing called the Approver network.
00:06:46 Adam Harvell
That's right.
00:06:48 Justin Winstead
Always improving and so it's, uh, this.
That's right, that's right.
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One to say, oh man, we got green today.
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I'm just going to enjoy the green so be thankful for that that's.
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That's fantastic.
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We were actually talking about before we jumped on with the recording about how to be content, but not be complacent.
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And yeah, that's part of it is you gotta be able to look at those grades and say, you know we're not complacent but we're just going to be content and how good the teams doing right now so.
00:07:10 Justin Winstead
That's fantastic, I celebrate that, yeah.
00:07:11 Jay Owen
Yeah, that's a.
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That's an interesting point.
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'cause I think about that a lot and I always say that I'm I'm the least comfortable when I'm the most comfortable and what I mean by that is when the most comfortable start to look around and feel like there's something wrong and I've had to learn like I think I think people fall off opposite sides of the spectrum that, but for me I've had to learn that level of contentment going out.
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I'm just going.
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To enjoy today I'm going to rest in this and I think for a lot of.
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Entrepreneurs, that's hard.
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To do 'cause, it's like all we gotta.
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Go to the.
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Next thing and I mean.
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Sometimes we need to just be able to enjoy where.
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How far we've come and look to where we're going both both can be true at the same time.
00:07:47 Justin Winstead
Yeah, it makes me think about the creation story in Genesis, and you know each day God makes some things and creates and then he looks back and.
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He says this is good.
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Good and there's a period, but it's not a final period 'cause the very next day he goes and he creates again and says it's good, but yet he continues to create even though he continues to celebrate the goodness there.
00:08:09 Justin Winstead
And I think that's kind of how we're supposed to have seasons of our life on a regular basis where we look around and go.
00:08:15 Justin Winstead
You know what?
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This is really good?
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Going to rest in that for a moment, put a period there, but it's not the file period like I still gotta.
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Let's go and let's add to it and make it better.
00:08:23 Jay Owen
Well, you know it's crazy.
00:08:25 Jay Owen
About that particular story in Genesis as well is, there's a great podcast called The Bema Podcast Bmap and and the first episode that talks about the story of Genesis.
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And it's basically an exposition of understanding genesis as a poem, which it is.
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It's a.
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It's a Hebrew poem and the purpose, the primary purpose of the very first chapter Genesis, was to teach the Israelites how to rest because their value as a people, that they were slaves to the Egyptians, that their value as a people was purely based on.
00:08:57 Jay Owen
How many bricks they could make in the week and they made as many of them as they could from the time they woke up at the time they went to bed and that was their value as a human being and since the beginning of genus Genesis, one of the primary purposes of Genesis is to teach rest.
00:09:10 Jay Owen
That podcast is a fascinating exposition.
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So that just one little tidbit from 'cause it's.
00:09:15 Jay Owen
So interesting to.
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Me is in that chapter Genesis.
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It talks about when he goes from day to night.
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He actually does the opposite.
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We would do.
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We would say day and night, but if you go look at Genesis it says then there was night and then there was day and so the idea and even even even there like.
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After he created man in Genesis from the in the poem the next day after man was created was.
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Best and so people were created into a place of rest.
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They work from rest, not work to earn rest.
00:09:46 Jay Owen
And that's just I mean that's a whole other.
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Podcast, But that's a fascinating thing to me.
00:09:50 Justin Winstead
Well, that one.
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Man, that is fantastic and you said the name.
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Of that was FEMA.
00:09:54 Jay Owen
Yeah BMAA I'm.
00:09:55 Jay Owen
Probably pronouncing it right but exclusive.
00:09:56 Justin Winstead
That's right, let's go yeah, we.
00:09:58 Justin Winstead
So one thing we like to do for our listeners is we will list any resources that we've referenced in the podcast that where they can go and.
00:10:04 Justin Winstead
Do that later.
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We'll try to look that one up and.
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And yeah, that's fine, man.
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Well, hey, I know that you are around a lot of authors and you go to conferences and you know you're studying.
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You're always growing, always reading, so you've got a lot of books.
00:10:15 Justin Winstead
Probably upstairs in your mind there, but if you had to write one yourself tomorrow so they said, hey, you know what?
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In order for you.
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To continue to live, you got to write.
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A book, what would your book be about?
00:10:26 Justin Winstead
You know one of.
00:10:27 Jay Owen
My favorite chapters from the book that I did right, so I wrote a book called.
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Building a business that lasts.
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And the subtitle of that book is, without sacrificing family.
00:10:36 Jay Owen
And I found that the chapter that was the longest and the easiest to write was the chapter that I called the work life blender, and I think if I were writing a book which I'm actually kind of working on, some what had been a big priority, it would be.
00:10:51 Jay Owen
About that it would be.
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How do we blend?
00:10:54 Jay Owen
I think balance is the wrong word.
00:10:55 Jay Owen
I don't like that word.
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I don't think it's always about balance.
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Uhm, but I think that.
00:11:02 Jay Owen
That's the thing people are struggling with, especially in our, you know, American Society of like.
00:11:07 Jay Owen
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps like hustle, hustle, hustle and I see many people.
00:11:14 Jay Owen
Uhm, sacrificing their friendships, their families and their marriages at the altar of business.
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And I don't want to do that.
00:11:21 Jay Owen
And so that that's something I'm really passionate about, it means a.
00:11:24 Jay Owen
Lot to me that.
00:11:26 Jay Owen
That's what my next book would be about.
00:11:28 Justin Winstead
Man, that would be really interesting and I've had a similar conviction to you in that regard in the sense.
00:11:33 Justin Winstead
But whenever I was starting my business, I was kind of told us all about the hustle.
00:11:37 Justin Winstead
It's all about how many hours you're putting in.
00:11:40 Justin Winstead
I can remember one guy told me you know about this speaker who was sleep is for suckers is what his whole theme was and it was like you can't sleep.
00:11:47 Justin Winstead
You just gotta go and I did that for a while and it was running my marriage into the ground it.
00:11:52 Justin Winstead
Was creating family issues.
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I was having health issues and it was until I realized that wait there is and like you said, balance is a challenging word.
00:11:59 Justin Winstead
I think if you think of balance as being a stable spot where everything is like even keel and there's no shakiness at all, I think you're under.
00:12:07 Justin Winstead
Bad conception there, but I think if you think of balances counterbalance where it's kind of like oh you kind of go here for a little bit of CS at a time.
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But then it locks back and you have to go over and put emphasis there.
00:12:17 Justin Winstead
So you're kind of creating this balance almost like being on the waves on the water, right?
00:12:22 Jay Owen
Yeah, and I always say like you know, a lot of it is about communication and relationships.
00:12:26 Jay Owen
You know the the greatest single.
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Calls of all.
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Relationships failing, whether it's clients or friends or colleagues or marriages, is misplaced expectations.
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I expect this and you expect that, and those two things are too far apart when we have a real problem and and communication is the bridge.
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That connects expectations.
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Communication is the bridge that connects expectations.
00:12:47 Jay Owen
In fact, just last night my wife and I were sitting down just kind of glanced through our calendars while also watching some TV while we also had a bunch of kids spinning out of our house, 'cause we were, I was waking up early to take them all to youth camp this morning and she just kind.
00:13:01 Jay Owen
Of looked at me and she goes the next couple of months are going to be a busy season.
00:13:05 Jay Owen
And I was like.
00:13:06 Jay Owen
Yes they are.
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And she's like we just got to press through it and like, yes we do and and we both know that like the next couple of months are going to be a time where we're just going to have to hunker down and get it done, and there's a lot of elements going on in our lives.
00:13:19 Jay Owen
Right now we have.
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Kids at pivotal ages and, and we're OK.
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With that, you know.
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But we've communicated that.
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We understand it.
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The expectation is there, and so you know when a little freak time comes up, we'll actually be surprised and delighted by that.
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Not not.
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Upset then we don't.
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Have much of it you know.
00:13:37 Jay Owen
And we also know that there going to come a season very, very soon where all of a sudden these five children are just going to fly away and not be in.
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Our home anymore, Lord Willing and.
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And then what you know?
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And so we're going to have a lot more free time later, probably.
00:13:54 Jay Owen
And so right now it's a different season.
00:13:55 Jay Owen
And businesses like this too.
00:13:56 Jay Owen
You know, like sometimes you do have to like hustle.
00:14:00 Jay Owen
Sometimes you do have to like work from the time you wake up until the time you fall asleep.
00:14:04 Jay Owen
And especially you're just trying to start something fresh for sure, that's that's.
00:14:08 Jay Owen
Normal, but it can't stay like that when it stays like that.
00:14:10 Jay Owen
That's when people get themselves in trouble and you don't communicate about it, especially with people that you say are the most important in your life.
00:14:17 Jay Owen
That that's when there's real problems.
00:14:19 Justin Winstead
Yeah man, that's that's some powerful words there and sometimes just stating the obvious.
00:14:24 Justin Winstead
There's a it needs to be done like you said, that really wasn't neither of you surprised the other person with the statements.
00:14:30 Justin Winstead
As far as like it's there, but acknowledging it does something.
00:14:33 Justin Winstead
Not like saying please and thank you and I love you like OK this can be obvious things that you know but you.
00:14:38 Justin Winstead
Just need to say it.
00:14:39 Jay Owen
That's right, that's right.
00:14:40 Adam Harvell
So so tell.
00:14:41 Justin Winstead
Me about one or two influential people in your life and how they impacted you, and I'm guessing that's going to be a challenge 'cause I know that you'd love to learn from.
00:14:48 Justin Winstead
Other people and you know, go to conferences and follow speakers.
00:14:53 Justin Winstead
But if you can narrow it down to one or two who who kind of surfaces through the top four, yeah.
00:14:58 Jay Owen
Man, there just have been so many.
00:15:01 Jay Owen
In fact side tangent, I was telling the other day and this is going to offend a lot of my conservative friends who are listening potentially.
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But it's OK you.
00:15:07 Jay Owen
Can be offended.
00:15:08 Jay Owen
I was thinking about this the other day.
00:15:09 Jay Owen
Remember when?
00:15:10 Jay Owen
Barack Obama pist off a lot of entrepreneurs.
00:15:12 Jay Owen
By saying you didn't build this.
00:15:14 Justin Winstead
Right, right?
00:15:16 Jay Owen
And when he said that I was like.
00:15:19 Jay Owen
I had some very things to say.
00:15:21 Jay Owen
That would require this to be an explicit.
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Podcast you know and.
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And I was angry because I thought, well, you don't know like I have worked my whole life from the time I was a kid to where I am today like I have, I have burnt so much energy at.
00:15:35 Jay Owen
Times I saw other.
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People just fooling around like I did build this.
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And then.
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I kind of stopped and thought.
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I think the.
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Heart of what he was trying to get to.
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Although he did it very UN empathetically towards a community that really does work really hard was if we really think about it.
00:15:56 Jay Owen
Through your question, all of us have had people, either people we personally know, or people that we just aspire to be, or aspirational and identity that have impacted us.
00:16:06 Jay Owen
And without whom we wouldn't be.
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Who we are and our.
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Businesses wouldn't be where they are.
00:16:11 Jay Owen
And for me a couple come to mind.
00:16:12 Jay Owen
Mean early on in my business life really as a kid.
00:16:15 Jay Owen
As a teenager my uncle was a huge impact for me.
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He ran his.
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Own insurance business and.
00:16:21 Jay Owen
He did it for years.
00:16:21 Jay Owen
Fact he just sold it recently and there was a time where I was going to take over his business and the vision was at some point he would fade out which is literally happening right now and I would fade in and I would become the new open and associates and that was the plan and it it probably would have worked really well and I'd have made a lot of money but.
00:16:40 Jay Owen
Yeah no.
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I married the right woman one day.
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That's probably the second most influential person to contain.
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Answer your question.
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In a very long way.
00:16:47 Jay Owen
Is that I came home one day and my wife was sitting on the couch and I sat next and I was crying because I'm a crier and she said what's wrong and I said, well.
00:16:56 Jay Owen
Well, I could do this job.
00:16:57 Jay Owen
With my uncle in the insurance business.
00:17:00 Jay Owen
And I probably make a lot of money.
00:17:01 Jay Owen
At it, but I think I'm going to hate it.
00:17:03 Jay Owen
The rest of my life.
00:17:04 Jay Owen
And she said, still quit and do what you love.
00:17:07 Jay Owen
And I did next day when sat down my uncle and I cried.
00:17:11 Jay Owen
'cause I'm crier.
00:17:11 Jay Owen
And I told him I said I love you, and I've learned so much from you.
00:17:16 Jay Owen
This is not.
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What I made for her and made for something different and I just know it in my gut, you know?
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And at that point my business was maybe making $30,000 in total revenue maybe, and we'll do, you know, three and a half million this year and and.
00:17:33 Jay Owen
He but he.
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But but along with that season he gave me so much influence in advice and counsel.
00:17:40 Jay Owen
Things I say all the time, if you're around me enough, you'll hear me say things like, well, my own cars used to say you want to grow a great business over time to just do a great job for somebody to ask him to tell somebody else should never run out of business like I have all kinds of sayings like that that are implanted in me.
00:17:52 Jay Owen
Those little rolling Liars that had huge.
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Impact on me and then my.
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Wife she believed in me.
00:17:56 Jay Owen
When I don't believe in myself as far as like bigger aspirational people, the first two that popped to mind or somebody like Dave Ramsey and Michael Hyatt both actually very different personality styles.
00:18:08 Jay Owen
But I love so much about what each of them bring as far as the true aspiration Michael.
00:18:12 Jay Owen
Hi, it's probably a closer match to where I want to be when I'm his age, but both those guys just for massive impacts.
00:18:19 Jay Owen
For for how I think about business in life.
00:18:23 Justin Winstead
Yeah, and thank shared and you.
00:18:24 Justin Winstead
Kind of hit it this a little bit, but I was curious.
00:18:27 Justin Winstead
On how you.
00:18:27 Justin Winstead
Got into the marketing and the website building and those side note talk about different personalities.
00:18:33 Justin Winstead
The the fact that you guys can go in and and create things from scratch and then you're dealing with all the technical stuff and every time somebody says I see oh like you did earlier.
00:18:41 Justin Winstead
Just kind of twitch a little bit.
00:18:43 Justin Winstead
Like I just, I'm amazed.
00:18:44 Justin Winstead
I love that you guys can do that.
00:18:46 Justin Winstead
It's it's amazing, but how did you get into that?
00:18:49 Justin Winstead
And then you've also had another recent transition where you're still doing that, but you're doing something else too, so I'm just talking to listeners a little bit about these transitions and how you found yourself in what you're doing professionally.
00:19:00 Jay Owen
For sure, I mean, you know the early years.
00:19:02 Jay Owen
It was really just about me being a nerd, which I was in price to lamb really at the core I just faked being like a professional on stage, you know, nursing professional looking maybe.
00:19:11 Jay Owen
Bill Gates is super rich, you know.
00:19:14 Jay Owen
And so I just love technology and so things like code and websites and all that kind of stuff you can do with computers really in technology I love.
00:19:23 Jay Owen
Moved so radar member. I was probably 11-12 years old and I was reading on a bulletin board service but we need to dial into the Internet and there wasn't really a woman out like we know it today and there was this bulletin board posts and said coming soon.
00:19:35 Jay Owen
The World Wide Web, you know, just typing in the address, it's going to go to a page with a dial in anymore if all.
00:19:40 Jay Owen
This is going to be something you know and that really.
00:19:43 Jay Owen
Hates me when I say that tell these.
00:19:44 Jay Owen
Stories now.
00:19:45 Jay Owen
But and then AOL came around.
00:19:47 Jay Owen
You know, that was like the big thing for accessing the Internet.
00:19:50 Jay Owen
You had to still wait for the dial up modem.
00:19:51 Jay Owen
And I started building websites and so.
00:19:54 Jay Owen
You know, I I built my website first website when I was 12 and just kind of kept growing from there.
00:19:59 Jay Owen
I got an internship with a company in Jacksonville when I was 16, which is the first time I've ever had a boss and the first time I had one for 20 plus years.
00:20:07 Jay Owen
Until recently I'll transition to 2nd and then I realized with a buddy in high school we could probably make a lot more money doing this.
00:20:14 Jay Owen
Ourselves then what if we were getting paid on the internship, which was great.
00:20:17 Jay Owen
It was much better than getting paid to bagging groceries.
00:20:20 Jay Owen
Nothing bad groceries and so certain websites.
00:20:25 Jay Owen
And that was the beginning.
00:20:26 Jay Owen
You know, it started with just basic, really horrible websites.
00:20:30 Jay Owen
To be honest compared to.
00:20:31 Jay Owen
What we build today.
00:20:32 Jay Owen
And then over time we just looked at the clients and thought what problems do they have and how can we help them solve them?
00:20:38 Jay Owen
Didn't think about it that clearly.
00:20:40 Jay Owen
Back then, but that's how we think about it now and just started adding one service to another to complement the existing offerings to provide more value for somebody so that they would pay us more in return.
00:20:52 Jay Owen
And, and that's really how the business has grown year over year for 23 years in a row.
00:20:57 Jay Owen
And then last year when we changed our company name after 22 years from design extensions to business Builder, which is a big change, I made one of the guys on my team who did me for 11 years.
00:21:09 Jay Owen
The President of.
00:21:10 Jay Owen
The company and a.
00:21:12 Jay Owen
Couple months out of that.
00:21:13 Jay Owen
After that I got a call from the Executive director or executive pastor.
00:21:17 Jay Owen
I should say at the.
00:21:18 Jay Owen
The church that my wife and I attend.
00:21:20 Jay Owen
I will get into the whole ministry background, but I thought for a long time many part of the work I was supposed to do should be in ministry.
00:21:26 Jay Owen
I left the business, can be can be and is a.
00:21:28 Jay Owen
Ministry as well for sure, UM?
00:21:31 Jay Owen
And one of the things I.
00:21:33 Jay Owen
Do another and I just felt like got it.
00:21:34 Jay Owen
Open the door for me to help this church.
00:21:37 Jay Owen
And it's a pretty large church. I mean in person for Easter we had about almost 30,000 people, so it's it's a big big organization.
00:21:45 Jay Owen
But he needed help in things that I have giftings and experienced in communication and websites and apps and social media and.
00:21:52 Jay Owen
Messaging and all these things.
00:21:54 Jay Owen
And so I decided to take second job which is legitimately crazy.
00:21:59 Jay Owen
My team thought I was crazy at the beginning of the year.
00:22:01 Jay Owen
There was certainly some fear to overcome of like Nancy, leaving like what's going on here.
00:22:05 Jay Owen
This is crazy, but man, I just believe like sometimes God opens a door and it's just so apparent that that's what you're supposed to do.
00:22:13 Jay Owen
Then you should just do it and it'll be fine like and we're fine.
00:22:18 Jay Owen
We're now six months into me doing this and it's created so much opportunity because the team has.
00:22:23 Jay Owen
It's just a chance to figure things out without me always being there, and that's been fun.
00:22:29 Jay Owen
We've been working on for years anyway, it's not new.
00:22:31 Jay Owen
But that's a that's a great gift because I my greatest desire is to build a team of leaders, managers, and strategists.
Right?
00:22:39 Jay Owen
Who have great.
00:22:41 Jay Owen
Opportunity their own to grow and thrive.
00:22:44 Jay Owen
Uhm, I don't just want employees, you know well.
00:22:47 Jay Owen
People who start to outpace me at some point, and.
00:22:50 Jay Owen
Uhm, that's the dream.
00:22:52 Jay Owen
It's to create an environment.
00:22:53 Jay Owen
Where other people?
00:22:54 Jay Owen
Have the the the freedom the money.
00:22:56 Jay Owen
And the purpose?
00:22:57 Jay Owen
But I've always wanted to create for myself.
00:23:00 Justin Winstead
Man, that is wonderful and I love the way you talk about your team and just the vision there.
00:23:04 Justin Winstead
That's it's really.
00:23:05 Justin Winstead
Powerful stuff there.
00:23:07 Justin Winstead
So on the marketing side I mean you kind of hand it this little bit.
00:23:10 Justin Winstead
You compared yourself now, to which you wear back then on.
00:23:13 Justin Winstead
Build a rudimentary sites, so stick figures and now you've.
00:23:16 Justin Winstead
Got them you.
00:23:18 Justin Winstead
Know wonderful or creative sites, but what's something that you feel like?
00:23:21 Justin Winstead
Man, they're at business builders.
00:23:23 Justin Winstead
Your team has just got a better method for.
00:23:25 Justin Winstead
Or they've kind of got a little secret sauce, it's.
00:23:27 Justin Winstead
Like, here's what really?
00:23:29 Justin Winstead
We're doing better than other people in our industry on the average or do and what could you speak to on?
00:23:34 Jay Owen
Sure, it's a combination of things.
00:23:36 Jay Owen
I would say we'll talk about differentiation.
00:23:38 Jay Owen
In other words, how are we different from somebody else, which is essentially the question.
00:23:41 Jay Owen
It's really rolling thing, right?
00:23:44 Jay Owen
So one thing.
00:23:44 Jay Owen
For example for us is that we're a story brand certified agency.
00:23:48 Jay Owen
There's a handful of those around the country, and now I think there's more like 20 something, but about when we started there was a handful.
00:23:54 Jay Owen
And that this means where our team is fully certified in our framework created by Guy named Donald Miller from a book while building a story brand.
00:24:01 Jay Owen
That messaging framework is one of the most pivotal things I've ever seen in marketing for successive owner business.
00:24:07 Jay Owen
So if you want one marketing tip from this podcast that will help you grow, go really building a story.
00:24:12 Jay Owen
Brand it will change the way you think about how you message for your business, but it's just one piece of the puzzle, the other is the vast amount of experience that we have, so lots of people.
00:24:21 Jay Owen
The store brand community there's.
00:24:22 Jay Owen
Very few who have 20 plus years of experience like.
00:24:25 Jay Owen
We do, and then the third is also the tools and systems that we stack.
00:24:29 Jay Owen
On top of that one.
00:24:32 Jay Owen
Those, for example is a tool called HubSpot, which is a great marketing automation tool and we're platinum partners with HubSpot.
00:24:38 Jay Owen
And so those three things together we kind.
00:24:40 Jay Owen
See as our key differentiation.
00:24:43 Jay Owen
We're story about certified agency with 20 plus years of experience in growth ourselves and a HubSpot platinum partner.
00:24:51 Jay Owen
When you combine all those things, there's only a couple of agencies in the whole world who can match to all of those, and we'll be able to take people from a clean, simple process.
00:25:00 Jay Owen
From beginning to end.
00:25:02 Jay Owen
We plan things so they know that the building right thing is not wasting time and money on marketing.
00:25:06 Jay Owen
It doesn't work.
00:25:07 Jay Owen
We produce things that are necessary in order to tell the right stories to the right people, and then we help promote it to get in front of the right eyeballs to get attention and acquire customers.
00:25:16 Jay Owen
And because of that simplicity of the plan.
00:25:19 Jay Owen
And people have confidence that they're not wasting time and money on things that don't work because a lot of people have done that before.
00:25:26 Justin Winstead
Yeah, well it's no surprise then how you guys have reached the level of success that you have and I know getting to see some of your team at the conferences that we've attended together and just seeing the growth that's happening.
00:25:37 Justin Winstead
I can tell that that's a part of, you know your background and you guys are person, but also your team and what you guys do well so.
00:25:43 Justin Winstead
Congratulations on building that business.
00:25:45 Justin Winstead
I want to transition as to our big topic that we're going to talk about today, so we want to get a little bit of content that's really relevant.
00:25:52 Justin Winstead
To our listeners.
00:25:53 Justin Winstead
Especially some of those going through our.
00:25:55 Justin Winstead
Coaching program we're.
00:25:56 Justin Winstead
Going to talk about perspective and vision.
00:25:58 Justin Winstead
But before we.
00:25:58 Justin Winstead
Do that.
00:25:59 Justin Winstead
I want to call for just a quick break and then we'll pick back up this conversation right after that.
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00:26:30 Justin Winstead
Alright, welcome back to the Improver Network podcast.
00:26:33 Justin Winstead
We are continuing our conversation here with Jay Owen from business builders and we are transitioning our conversation now to start talking about perspective and vision here at the improver network.
00:26:46 Justin Winstead
We're always trying to learn and grow personally and professionally.
00:26:49 Justin Winstead
In getting the perspective and advice from others helping identify blind spots, all this is very important to what we're aiming.
00:26:56 Justin Winstead
To do here.
00:26:57 Justin Winstead
So as we get into that one thing I was curious about with you.
00:27:00 Justin Winstead
Is this something that you recently have tried in your company?
00:27:03 Justin Winstead
And I realize you're more hands off now, so maybe your company has tried or one of your teams has and.
00:27:08 Justin Winstead
You were just surprised by the result.
00:27:09 Justin Winstead
Love it and why do you think that that culture by surprise?
00:27:15 Jay Owen
You know, I think it's just a matter.
00:27:17 Jay Owen
The biggest thing that we've kind of implemented and it's really not been super easy over the last couple of years has been we've shifted our model to be where our internal team are leaders, managers, and strategists.
00:27:30 Jay Owen
And what I?
00:27:30 Jay Owen
Mean by that is I don't have a huge staff of internal designers, huge staff of internal developers.
00:27:35 Jay Owen
Huge staff of copywriters, videographers, photographers, all that kind.
00:27:37 Jay Owen
Of stuff we.
00:27:38 Jay Owen
Have some people have expertise in those areas for sure, but the vast majority of our team are experts to those things but able to lead them.
00:27:45 Jay Owen
And then we have.
00:27:46 Jay Owen
Tons of contract teams that we use all over the world just like a building contractor would to bring in to have a specialty tile person.
00:27:55 Jay Owen
You know, in a particular to bathroom or a particular type of you know, personal on a certain.
00:27:59 Jay Owen
Kind of roof.
00:28:00 Jay Owen
It's very similar in the work that we do, and there were times along the way where we weren't sure that.
00:28:06 Jay Owen
That was always going to work.
00:28:08 Jay Owen
Where we?
00:28:10 Jay Owen
You know tried partners or vendors that were really just not up to par, and I think lately over the last probably 6 to 12 months really just landed on the right people in the right places, both internally on our internal team and externally on our contract team.
00:28:22 Jay Owen
They're just working exceptionally well, and it allows us to produce great work at with a good margin to stay healthy as a business.
00:28:30 Jay Owen
And also have incredible results to help other people grow their businesses and so.
00:28:35 Jay Owen
It's been amazing to see the persistence and the resilience of the team being willing to push through and try the next thing.
00:28:42 Jay Owen
Basically, until we found the thing that worked because a lot of times, the first thing doesn't work and you gotta keep pressing to get to a place that it will.
00:28:50 Justin Winstead
Yeah, so along those lines of that being, I mean it sounds like some of that was which our hopes were, but then this is still a little surprising and I'm trying to think about that perspective on.
00:29:00 Justin Winstead
Hey, we went into it with this perspective, but then we were surprised.
00:29:03 Justin Winstead
And had a new perspective.
00:29:04 Justin Winstead
What do you?
00:29:05 Justin Winstead
What kind of calls that shift is that just was the experience of how it happened or or why do you think the perspective wasn't necessarily accurate from the get go?
00:29:14 Justin Winstead
Or you had to try some different things?
00:29:17 Jay Owen
I think I always want things to happen quicker than they do, you know, but I always like to try and think of myself as the tortoise in the tortoise and the hare, you know.
00:29:26 Jay Owen
And so.
00:29:28 Jay Owen
I think some in that case I was kind of surprised.
00:29:30 Jay Owen
It took us so long to.
00:29:31 Jay Owen
Find the right partners.
00:29:32 Jay Owen
In certain areas.
00:29:33 Jay Owen
But now that we have them.
00:29:35 Jay Owen
Honestly, at some point you're kind of surprised at the results, even though that was the original desired vision anyway, you're like because you kind of get to a place like is this going to work?
00:29:41 Jay Owen
Like should we actually have more of the right kind of people in house like I will pull this off and started to kind of doubt your own vision, so it's.
00:29:49 Jay Owen
Kind of surprising when it actually did work.
00:29:51 Jay Owen
You know, and so you know.
00:29:54 Jay Owen
I think The thing is.
00:29:55 Jay Owen
Like knowing when to quit so important and we weren't at a place where we needed to quit a particular area of the business.
00:30:00 Jay Owen
Must keep pressing and you find the right.
00:30:02 Jay Owen
You find the right partners.
Yeah, you know.
00:30:05 Justin Winstead
Maybe think a little bit about marriage or wedding.
00:30:07 Justin Winstead
I should say when you think about you know what's going to happen, but it's a surprise when it is 'cause that's the way I remember feeling like I knew it's going to get married.
00:30:14 Justin Winstead
We were engaged.
00:30:14 Justin Winstead
There's a wedding date, but then building up to you're like holy crap.
00:30:17 Justin Winstead
I'm about to be married with like I mean it just kind of the reality is sitting in and the thing you are planning for and hoping for it actually happens.
00:30:23 Justin Winstead
There's a little bit of shock after that.
00:30:25 Jay Owen
Yeah, it's interesting about that too.
00:30:27 Jay Owen
Is I think marriage and business in that context have a lot in common because people spend so much time planning for their wedding day.
00:30:35 Jay Owen
And probably not nearly enough time planning for their actual marriage. You know, the wedding day is going to last 24 hours and the marriage hopefully is going to last decades.
00:30:45 Jay Owen
It often doesn't, and so why you know, and I think part of that is because we don't.
00:30:51 Jay Owen
Maybe there's a sauce culture plan for those things.
00:30:54 Jay Owen
And this can be kind of like.
00:30:55 Jay Owen
That too especially.
00:30:56 Jay Owen
People launching new businesses, but we're excited about the launch and.
00:31:00 Jay Owen
They want you know they have all the hats and the T shirts and the website.
00:31:04 Jay Owen
So I wanted to buy websites to us.
00:31:05 Jay Owen
What we make you know.
00:31:06 Jay Owen
But at the same time maybe in the beginning.
00:31:08 Jay Owen
You don't need all the things that everybody else has.
00:31:10 Jay Owen
Maybe you need to plan about the thing about the long term aspect of the.
00:31:13 Jay Owen
Business and not just the launch of the.
00:31:16 Jay Owen
Business because you.
00:31:17 Jay Owen
Know you know my podcast and book.
00:31:20 Jay Owen
Our title building a business.
00:31:21 Jay Owen
That lasts for a reason.
00:31:23 Jay Owen
Because I want something that is going to outlast me.
00:31:27 Jay Owen
I want something that's going to and not just people.
00:31:29 Jay Owen
Often it's for their kids.
00:31:30 Jay Owen
It's not just for that, I want it for the people that are here.
00:31:32 Jay Owen
People to work now I wanted to know that if I was gone tomorrow, the thing would survive without me.
00:31:36 Jay Owen
I think that matters.
00:31:38 Justin Winstead
Yeah man, and that's even a really relevant word for our network.
00:31:41 Justin Winstead
The past week I've been doing coaching for years and we've had different workshops and programs that we've done.
00:31:46 Justin Winstead
But this year, we've launched our membership program.
00:31:49 Justin Winstead
We're going to have a launch this fall and it to your point.
00:31:51 Justin Winstead
It would be very easy and I'm even trying to think about it right now.
00:31:55 Justin Winstead
Having getting caught up in planning the party the launch event.
00:31:59 Justin Winstead
The Big Deal and like forgetting like later.
00:32:01 Justin Winstead
We got to make sure there's real value being provided for our Members that we're really accomplishing the mission that we're set out to do, and so that's a great reminder even for us here in our network.
00:32:10 Justin Winstead
So thank you for.
00:32:11 Justin Winstead
That that's one lesson that you've learned.
00:32:13 Justin Winstead
About perspective or vision that you think everyone should learn.
00:32:19 Jay Owen
You know?
00:32:22 Jay Owen
I was I got to interview Doctor John Deloney the other day from from the Dave Ramsey organization from Ramsey Solutions and one of the things I always talk about as it relates to the vision is vision in my own personal life, and I will tell the story if you've listened to many other podcasts turning out in the last year or two heard me speak on the stage.
00:32:42 Jay Owen
I probably said something like this when I close my eyes.
00:32:45 Jay Owen
I can see what my life looks like when I'm 70 years old.
00:32:48 Jay Owen
I can see the wife that's sitting next to me.
00:32:50 Jay Owen
My current wife, Claire.
00:32:51 Jay Owen
I can see a nice glass of bourbon sitting next to me.
00:32:54 Jay Owen
I can see.
00:32:54 Jay Owen
My kids playing in a long grassy yard, actually the grandkids playing.
00:32:58 Jay Owen
See my kids out on.
00:33:00 Jay Owen
Boats or jet skis and the river or our houses built and I can see this vision of the future.
00:33:06 Jay Owen
And so I'll ask myself the question like what needs to be true, and for that to be true.
00:33:12 Jay Owen
And the interesting thing about it is it doesn't specifically relate to my business, but it's a later outcome in life that the business can and will influence.
00:33:21 Jay Owen
In positive or negative ways.
00:33:23 Jay Owen
And one thing the.
00:33:24 Jay Owen
Doctor Donnie said that really caught me.
00:33:25 Jay Owen
Off guard and I.
00:33:26 Jay Owen
Was like, oh, you're right, it was.
00:33:28 Justin Winstead
I know you're 1.
00:33:29 Justin Winstead
Of those, that was a great podcast, by the way.
00:33:31 Jay Owen
He messed me up with beans.
00:33:31 Justin Winstead
Damn it.
00:33:33 Jay Owen
It was so good.
00:33:34 Jay Owen
I don't remember exactly what he said, but he basically said something like that's a great vision.
00:33:39 Jay Owen
But what happens when your wife gets cancer and dies?
00:33:41 Jay Owen
What happens when your child can't have children and so you can't have grandchildren?
00:33:46 Jay Owen
You can't control that outcome.
00:33:47 Jay Owen
And I was like, holy.
00:33:49 Jay Owen
Holy smoke.
00:33:52 Jay Owen
That was a.
00:33:52 Jay Owen
Huge revelation for me.
00:33:54 Jay Owen
I think I already operated in the space where he wanted me to be by saying that, but as it relates to vision and.
00:34:02 Jay Owen
Thinking about how.
00:34:03 Jay Owen
That affects life, whether it's business or personal, which I.
00:34:06 Jay Owen
Think they all blend?
00:34:07 Jay Owen
Together anyway is you have to be willing to reshape that.
00:34:11 Jay Owen
Vision because you can't control all things, and so there's some things you're going to be in a place where.
00:34:16 Jay Owen
You know you just.
00:34:18 Jay Owen
It's out of your hands, you know, and so I think one of the problems we have right now with 24/7 news and 24/7 social media.
00:34:25 Jay Owen
As many of us and many, many folks are so worried about things that they literally have absolutely 0 control over.
00:34:32 Jay Owen
And maybe we should spend a little more time being worried about the things that are right around us.
00:34:36 Jay Owen
The people that are right around the things that we can.
00:34:38 Jay Owen
Actually influenced in some positive way things we can improve versus the things that we cannot.
00:34:43 Jay Owen
And so I think that's why I've thought about it.
00:34:46 Jay Owen
Relates to Visionist, making sure there's space for me to re-evaluate that none of it's set in stone because I I can't control all things that I'm not God.
00:34:55 Justin Winstead
I'm a planner.
00:34:56 Justin Winstead
Personally I love plans.
00:34:58 Justin Winstead
You mentioned Michael Hyatt earlier.
00:35:00 Justin Winstead
I'm actually certified in the full focus planner and I love helping.
00:35:03 Justin Winstead
People to get their.
00:35:05 Justin Winstead
Vision and their plans and your reminder about what after the loan, he said.
00:35:09 Justin Winstead
And on that podcast, by the way, what's the what's the?
00:35:11 Justin Winstead
Name of your.
00:35:12 Justin Winstead
Podcast and how could people listen to that?
00:35:14 Jay Owen
Yeah, the podcast is the same title as the book.
00:35:17 Jay Owen
It's building a business that lasts.
00:35:19 Jay Owen
You can also just search for my name Jay and anybody looking for podcasts and it should pop up.
00:35:23 Jay Owen
But building a business that lasts.
00:35:25 Justin Winstead
Yeah, look for that doctor.
00:35:26 Justin Winstead
John Deloney interview on that.
00:35:28 Justin Winstead
I listened to it and it was fantastic, but you had that idea of like it's great to make a plan but you got to be flexible in case things.
00:35:34 Justin Winstead
Well, you know.
00:35:35 Justin Winstead
But the challenging part about that is sometimes when life starts throwing stuff at you, you can't be too flexible, because then all of a sudden you're just in a state of reactivity and you're letting everything throw you off course.
00:35:45 Justin Winstead
And so I think it's a hard balance sometimes to know like man, I need to just continue headstrong or hey I need to reshape the vision or I guess I just need to accept it.
00:35:54 Justin Winstead
Sometimes when it is out of my control and the vision isn't coming to completion, so the best struggle I think for a lot of us.
00:36:02 Jay Owen
Yeah, I think that persistence in those things is it's.
00:36:07 Jay Owen
It's important to know when to quit.
00:36:08 Jay Owen
There's actually a great book by Seth Godin.
00:36:10 Jay Owen
It's a real short one.
00:36:12 Jay Owen
Called, I don't think it's called the dip.
00:36:15 Jay Owen
Let me look for it real quick.
00:36:18 Jay Owen
It's it's basically around this idea of understanding when to quit because there there are.
00:36:24 Jay Owen
Sometimes when we should quit, yeah, it's it's called the dip by Seth Godin.
00:36:29 Jay Owen
A little book that teaches you when to quit and when to stick.
00:36:32 Jay Owen
And I won't ruin it, but he shares some great ideas and and some Nuggets in there around.
00:36:37 Jay Owen
This particular idea of when do you know that this vision is something that maybe should you?
00:36:43 Jay Owen
You should put a pause on and when do.
00:36:45 Jay Owen
You know that it's something that.
00:36:47 Jay Owen
You should just press forward into 'cause there's been plenty of times where.
00:36:50 Jay Owen
I thought I should quit.
00:36:52 Jay Owen
For one reason or another, and and didn't and pressed.
00:36:55 Jay Owen
Through and glad that I did.
00:36:59 Justin Winstead
Well, we don't have blind spots that limit our ability to see everything clearly.
00:37:03 Justin Winstead
How do you overcome your own blind spots, whether personally or professionally?
00:37:07 Justin Winstead
What habits do you have or techniques?
00:37:10 Justin Winstead
Or have you been able to overcome any blind spots?
00:37:15 Jay Owen
Well, I think you have to.
00:37:16 Jay Owen
Have the right people around you to overcome blind spots.
00:37:19 Jay Owen
I had a pastor say one time, you know we most of us know what our weak, healthy people know what their weaknesses are, but they don't know what their blind spots are.
00:37:27 Jay Owen
And because that's little what it's.
00:37:29 Jay Owen
Called it's a blind spot for a reason.
00:37:30 Jay Owen
'cause you're blind to it, and so the only way to see a blind.
00:37:33 Jay Owen
Spot is to have somebody pointed out.
00:37:35 Jay Owen
And we would have.
00:37:35 Jay Owen
Somebody pointed out is to have people in your life that you've given permission to to some extent, and that you've learned to trust, and they've learned to trust you to speak into that.
00:37:44 Jay Owen
And say, hey?
00:37:45 Jay Owen
Can I give you some advice and you're like?
00:37:46 Jay Owen
Yeah, sure, and you really mean it and they go.
00:37:49 Jay Owen
I don't know if you're aware of this, but sometimes when you're in a room with other people.
00:37:54 Jay Owen
You can really have a tendency to cut him off a lot, and being really you could be interrupted and they might take that as as you being somebody that I know that you're not like.
00:38:02 Jay Owen
Are you aware?
00:38:03 Jay Owen
Of that and.
00:38:04 Jay Owen
I say that because that is actually a weakness for me, but I'm aware of it's not a blast, but it is a weakness.
00:38:09 Jay Owen
I'm aware that my wife.
00:38:10 Jay Owen
Always says you're really good at interrupting people, which is not good.
00:38:13 Jay Owen
And and.
00:38:14 Jay Owen
And so I have to intentionally be aware of that, but the only reason I'm aware of that is because something else is pointed.
00:38:19 Jay Owen
Out to me over time.
00:38:20 Jay Owen
And so I'm even more sensitive to it.
00:38:23 Jay Owen
'cause I have to go.
00:38:23 Jay Owen
OK, gosh I.
00:38:24 Jay Owen
Have to stop doing that 'cause it's so habitual.
00:38:26 Jay Owen
And it's so part of my.
00:38:26 Jay Owen
Nature and so I think we're blind spots.
00:38:29 Jay Owen
The number one.
00:38:30 Jay Owen
Thing is, you got to be in a.
00:38:31 Jay Owen
Community of people that you've given permission to hold.
00:38:34 Jay Owen
Do accountable coaches need coaches?
00:38:37 Jay Owen
Leaders need coaches, people need coaches and mentors who will come alongside them and say.
00:38:46 Jay Owen
Hey, have you thought about this?
00:38:47 Jay Owen
Hey, you said you were going to do this thing, but you haven't done it yet.
00:38:49 Jay Owen
And a lot of leaders will say things like it's lonely at the top, and that's because they've allowed themselves for that to be true.
00:38:57 Jay Owen
It took me many years before I knew that I needed to have somebody else hold me accountable, and if it's kind of like whoa, what are we?
00:39:05 Jay Owen
What are you talking about, man?
00:39:07 Jay Owen
And then afterwards you're like, wow, that was really good.
00:39:09 Jay Owen
I need somebody else to point out things I'm not seeing.
00:39:14 Justin Winstead
You know I had a Group A few years back and really we started kind of.
00:39:18 Justin Winstead
I don't wanna say dissolving but fading I guess but pre COVID ankova just did us in and I've got some other guys I'm meeting with at that particular group.
00:39:26 Justin Winstead
There was something that we would do in in there that I really liked and we called it our nobes talks.
00:39:32 Justin Winstead
And nobody else is what you're thinking of.
00:39:34 Justin Winstead
It's no bull, right?
00:39:35 Justin Winstead
It's like I'm about to shoot straight with you, but it was also stood for no blind spots, and part of our agreement in the group was that we wanted to try to have no blind spots.
00:39:43 Justin Winstead
Now the.
00:39:44 Justin Winstead
Truth is, we all had him right, but it was like hey, if you see a blind spot will you come and let me know and we let each other know this he would say, hey AJ need to have a.
00:39:54 Justin Winstead
No BS talk with.
00:39:55 Justin Winstead
You and you immediately knew.
00:39:57 Justin Winstead
OK, alright, he's about to shoot straight.
00:39:59 Justin Winstead
He's about to tell me something and it's a blind spot that I have and it's kind of like this may.
00:40:03 Justin Winstead
Go some punches you in the gut.
00:40:04 Justin Winstead
And you're not expecting it.
00:40:05 Justin Winstead
That feels one way, but if somebody comes up and says, hey, Joe, about to punch you in the gut.
00:40:09 Justin Winstead
At least you can.
00:40:09 Justin Winstead
Brace forward a little bit what that?
00:40:11 Jay Owen
That's actually really good.
00:40:12 Jay Owen
That's actually really good communication advice for people, though, is like one of the guys mall is really good about this.
00:40:18 Jay Owen
So walk up to somebody and say, hey, can I give you some feedback?
00:40:21 Jay Owen
And you know when?
00:40:22 Jay Owen
These says something like that, like it's by not going.
00:40:24 Jay Owen
To be like.
00:40:25 Jay Owen
Your hair looks great today, you know.
00:40:27 Jay Owen
And and that's but it's and it's all times.
00:40:30 Jay Owen
It's not even something that critical anyway.
00:40:31 Jay Owen
So we kind of joke about it.
00:40:32 Jay Owen
'cause he's so he'll say it all the time, but I've learned to.
00:40:36 Jay Owen
Do that with people and go hey can.
00:40:38 Jay Owen
I can I give some feedback?
00:40:39 Jay Owen
On something and.
00:40:41 Jay Owen
Nine times out.
00:40:41 Jay Owen
Especially to somebody you know and trust are.
00:40:43 Jay Owen
Gonna be like yeah.
00:40:43 Jay Owen
Sure, we're like, hey, you know, I think this.
00:40:46 Jay Owen
Is this is something that could be improved and it's?
00:40:48 Jay Owen
Like oh wow OK versus just telling the thing that could be improved and it's like maybe maybe we should soften that a little bit, especially with different personalities.
00:40:57 Jay Owen
You know, I mean.
00:40:58 Jay Owen
I know you love working genius.
00:41:00 Jay Owen
I love that and assess my love.
00:41:02 Jay Owen
Any gram discuss all of all the things I like all those kind of assessments and and you know my wife and I are very different.
00:41:08 Jay Owen
On the India Gram, I'm a three, just like the performer or the achiever.
00:41:11 Jay Owen
If you can't tell and and she's the one which is the improver, if you will.
00:41:17 Jay Owen
So we called the perfectionist or the reformer and and so if I had spent my.
00:41:22 Jay Owen
Whole afternoon cleaning up the living room.
00:41:24 Jay Owen
And while she's
00:41:24 Jay Owen
Out of town she comes inside and sees it and there's one sock in the corner of a couch that I missed.
00:41:31 Jay Owen
The only thing she can see is that sock and if.
00:41:36 Jay Owen
She walks in.
00:41:36 Jay Owen
Is like hey, why is that sock on the couch and doesn't notice anything?
00:41:39 Jay Owen
Else that is very.
00:41:41 Jay Owen
Difficult for my personality, 'cause my personality type is already concerned that I don't have what it takes and I'm not good enough and so she just reinforces it to some extent.
00:41:49 Jay Owen
But she's gotten better at.
00:41:51 Jay Owen
OK, I see the sock on the couch, but instead I'm going to.
00:41:53 Jay Owen
Say hey it looks.
00:41:54 Jay Owen
Like you.
00:41:54 Jay Owen
Really cleaned up here.
00:41:55 Jay Owen
Thanks for doing.
00:41:55 Jay Owen
That I'm just going to go pick the sock.
00:41:57 Jay Owen
Up herself and put it away and so to say that I can't receive feedback because I need.
00:42:01 Jay Owen
To be able.
00:42:01 Jay Owen
To but that there.
00:42:03 Jay Owen
Is like a uh?
00:42:05 Jay Owen
Learning how to communicate with different people with different styles, and one of those tricks is the one that you just said which is.
00:42:11 Jay Owen
Hey can I give you some feedback?
00:42:12 Jay Owen
I tell you something kind of that might be a little bit tough to.
00:42:14 Jay Owen
Hear and it.
00:42:15 Jay Owen
Makes it does make it easier so.
00:42:17 Jay Owen
Maybe load that?
00:42:18 Jay Owen
I'd be like.
00:42:19 Jay Owen
OK, yeah, sure, tell.
00:42:20 Jay Owen
Me, you know, and I kind of.
00:42:21 Jay Owen
Unprepared to receive it versus.
00:42:23 Jay Owen
It is coming out of the blind spot.
00:42:26 Justin Winstead
Yeah no for sure.
00:42:28 Justin Winstead
Well, you mentioned earlier about how you've got this clear vision of life and you can just see it happen and almost like it's already a memory of yours about what life is.
00:42:36 Justin Winstead
Going to be like in the future.
00:42:38 Justin Winstead
But I know I've talked with some people that they don't have that clear vision.
00:42:42 Justin Winstead
So what do you tell that leader who wants that vision?
00:42:45 Justin Winstead
And they they want to have that thing they're shooting for, but they just don't seem to be able to get it.
00:42:50 Justin Winstead
They that they want that focus and clarity but they just haven't able to achieve that and so they don't even really know what they're working towards.
00:42:56 Justin Winstead
They're just kind of pinball machine reactive like lights, just like bouncing them around and they don't have that.
00:43:03 Justin Winstead
What would you tell?
00:43:04 Jay Owen
There's a couple things when people aren't sure about what their vision even is that I would tell them and encourage them with.
00:43:11 Jay Owen
The first one is be patient.
00:43:16 Jay Owen
You don't have to have some.
00:43:17 Jay Owen
I haven't had this grand vision of the future that long, and frankly, it's not even.
00:43:20 Jay Owen
It's pretty simple you.
00:43:21 Jay Owen
Know like I think people overcomplicate it. So be patient. Number 1 #2 don't overcomplicate it.
00:43:28 Jay Owen
Just just take a minute and sit down and close your eyes and wonder what's going to be like one of the best.
00:43:35 Jay Owen
Exercise I've ever done in my whole life.
00:43:37 Jay Owen
Many people have done this.
00:43:38 Jay Owen
Stephen Covey recommended it.
00:43:40 Jay Owen
Michael Hyatt again has a great book called Living Forward, but has this method and then Donald Miller more recently has one called here on a mission.
00:43:46 Jay Owen
All three of them have you do essentially the same exercise, just in different ways, which is sit down.
00:43:53 Jay Owen
And write down the 10 most important people or people groups in your life and then write a paragraph about what that person might say about you which you want them to say about you.
00:44:04 Jay Owen
In an ideal world.
00:44:05 Jay Owen
At your funeral, and that is a sobering, exercised and ultimately what you come up with in different methods.
00:44:12 Jay Owen
Whether it's Michael Heights living forward or Don Miller.
00:44:16 Jay Owen
's here on the mission, we actually will take people through that here on the mission course.
00:44:20 Jay Owen
Many times we live with our team, I did my wife.
00:44:22 Jay Owen
And you end up writing your eulogy.
00:44:25 Jay Owen
And there's something about that man that helps to create clarity about the future, because there is one truth about all of us.
00:44:32 Jay Owen
Regardless of what tribe or nation we were born into or or what we hold as our faith or religion or or what where we work or what we do, none of us are making it out of here.
00:44:42 Jay Owen
Alive that's a grim kind of like tough reality.
00:44:46 Jay Owen
But when you but when you anchor on that, you go hold on.
00:44:51 Jay Owen
What do I want to be like when I'm dead?
00:44:54 Jay Owen
And it's not really I want.
00:44:54 Jay Owen
To be out when I'm dead, it's really like between now and then, right?
00:44:57 Justin Winstead
Man, king.
00:44:58 Jay Owen
And it's an emotional exercise.
00:45:00 Jay Owen
The first time I did it, I just sat and cried in a hotel room and I had some time before an event.
00:45:04 Jay Owen
I sat into this exercise and I cried.
00:45:06 Jay Owen
And cried and cried, because the the the distance between.
00:45:10 Jay Owen
Who I was that day, which was.
00:45:12 Jay Owen
Probably 6-7 eight years ago.
00:45:14 Jay Owen
Who I was that day and who I wanted to be.
00:45:16 Jay Owen
When my children eulogized me at my own funeral.
00:45:20 Jay Owen
Was was a big gap.
00:45:23 Jay Owen
And I thought, man, that's that's the that's.
00:45:25 Jay Owen
A big difference between where I am now and where.
00:45:27 Jay Owen
I need to go.
00:45:27 Jay Owen
And then Michael Hydal often says, like, just ask the question what needs to be true today for that to be true tomorrow and so that exercise as far as vision for life will get you somewhere now.
00:45:40 Jay Owen
It's not going to be in the nuances of like what products you should sell off.
00:45:43 Jay Owen
That's not a.
00:45:44 Jay Owen
Vision is anyway.
00:45:45 Jay Owen
Vision is a long term exercise that does have some flexibility over time.
00:45:51 Jay Owen
That is a big picture direction of.
00:45:52 Jay Owen
Where you're going?
00:45:53 Jay Owen
And then how you get there's a different.
00:45:56 Jay Owen
Thing or sometimes?
00:45:56 Jay Owen
Many ways to get to that end outcome, which is fine, but I love that exercise site so be patient.
00:46:03 Jay Owen
And don't don't try and get too detailed about the vision and and ultimately think about it in your life, as dark as that is for a podcast episode we were trying to encourage people.
00:46:14 Jay Owen
It is one of the greatest encouragements when you sit down and you think OK, now I know what the end looks.
00:46:20 Jay Owen
Like how do I work my way towards it in a way that people stand up and say great things about me?
00:46:25 Jay Owen
I remember one of the one of my favorite things to watch.
00:46:28 Jay Owen
You can YouTube it out.
00:46:29 Jay Owen
There is a video of George W Bush eulogizing.
00:46:35 Jay Owen
His father, George HW Bush.
00:46:37 Jay Owen
He used to be Bush was vice president.
00:46:40 Jay Owen
Ronald Reagan.
00:46:40 Jay Owen
He's priced some lot of fancy stuff before that too.
00:46:43 Jay Owen
And then he was President, United States.
00:46:46 Jay Owen
But when George W Bush talked about him, he just talked about.
00:46:49 Jay Owen
Him as his dad.
00:46:51 Jay Owen
And it's like, man, here's one of the guys who was the most powerful men in the history of modern times.
00:46:59 Jay Owen
And his son talked about his memories of him.
00:47:02 Jay Owen
As a dad.
00:47:03 Jay Owen
If that is possible for him, that's possible for me.
00:47:07 Jay Owen
Now I want us to be true to make that happen.
00:47:09 Jay Owen
That's the vision that that'll get you somewhere you know and and so that's where I would start.
00:47:15 Jay Owen
If you're not sure what your vision should be for.
00:47:17 Jay Owen
Your own future.
00:47:18 Justin Winstead
Yeah, that is great advice and you kind of hinted at something in what you were saying and I'm wondering if you would agree with this statement and I've not thought about this until you.
00:47:27 Justin Winstead
Were just chatting.
00:47:27 Justin Winstead
But you know, I think some people think vision has got to be about certainty when vision.
00:47:32 Justin Winstead
Is really what I hope.
00:47:34 Justin Winstead
And so it's not necessary that you know exactly how it's going to play out.
00:47:37 Justin Winstead
Vision isn't you've got it all figured out, and you're certain it's more of this is what I'm hoping it's going to be like.
00:47:43 Justin Winstead
You go back to the Donald Miller stuff on storebrand.
00:47:46 Justin Winstead
It's all about what it what is the failure?
00:47:48 Justin Winstead
And what is?
00:47:49 Justin Winstead
Success, and like all the vision, is what does that success look like?
00:47:54 Justin Winstead
What am I hoping that that is, so yeah.
00:47:57 Jay Owen
Well, I've used a lot of political analogies today and I used more 'cause they just really work in these scenarios this.
00:48:02 Jay Owen
When you think about a positive hope for the future, I think that's exactly what created great value people without hope perish, right?
00:48:09 Jay Owen
And so people need hope.
00:48:12 Jay Owen
And when you think about the political messaging of Donald Trump and Barack Obama to relatively polarizing people, if you don't know and.
00:48:21 Jay Owen
Interestingly, they both were selling the same thing.
00:48:24 Jay Owen
They both were selling.
00:48:25 Jay Owen
Remember, Barack Obama had two primary words, hope and change.
Right?
00:48:30 Jay Owen
Hope was the primary will hope and change and then Donald Trump very clearly.
00:48:34 Jay Owen
Messaging make America great again.
00:48:36 Jay Owen
He was.
00:48:37 Jay Owen
He was selling a positive vision of the future future that had a nostalgic twist to some positivity that people remembered.
00:48:44 Jay Owen
In the past, which actually Bush did the same thing that used the exact same messaging?
00:48:49 Jay Owen
That's the funny part about it.
00:48:51 Jay Owen
But in both.
00:48:52 Jay Owen
Of those cases, and in many cases we're messaging.
00:48:54 Jay Owen
It as a success.
00:48:55 Jay Owen
It is about hope for a future.
00:48:57 Jay Owen
It's on our own minds.
00:48:59 Jay Owen
What is that hope?
00:49:00 Jay Owen
And yeah, it's probably going to change over time.
00:49:02 Jay Owen
And that's OK, you can re-evaluate it.
00:49:03 Jay Owen
You can re write your eulogy.
00:49:05 Jay Owen
Even if you have to some warrants.
00:49:05 Justin Winstead
Yeah, yeah, it's it's OK to change it, right?
00:49:09 Justin Winstead
That was probably stuff I pulled away from Baker MZ.
00:49:09 Adam Harvell
That's right.
00:49:11 Justin Winstead
At some it was a very simple statement, but he made the comment that like, yeah, we set out on stuff that we just.
00:49:16 Justin Winstead
This is the way it's going to be, and this is our plan and we got into it just.
00:49:19 Justin Winstead
Said, you know?
00:49:19 Justin Winstead
What we're changing and I don't like that idea anymore.
00:49:22 Justin Winstead
We're going different direction.
00:49:23 Justin Winstead
That's OK, so that's that's really.
00:49:25 Justin Winstead
Encourage unless we kind of get ready to wrap up.
00:49:27 Justin Winstead
I'm just wondering, is there anything else that you think?
00:49:29 Justin Winstead
That listeners really should think about or know about or tools or techniques or hacks or anything related to improving our vision and getting additional perspective and eliminating blind spots.
00:49:41 Justin Winstead
Anything you think we didn't cover or is there anything you wish I would have asked that I did and then?
00:49:45 Justin Winstead
You're like, oh, I wish we could have chatted about that.
00:49:47 Jay Owen
I think the biggest thing that I always like to really encourage people with is a lot of the things that we are told from a young age about business are not true, for example.
00:50:00 Jay Owen
If you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself.
00:50:03 Jay Owen
That is a recipe for burnout and most entrepreneurs and business owners and leaders end up stressed out and worn out and ready to quit.
00:50:13 Jay Owen
Almost everybody, if you haven't felt that way, you probably haven't been in business long enough.
00:50:18 Jay Owen
Just wait, you will.
00:50:19 Jay Owen
Marriage is pretty similar.
00:50:21 Jay Owen
That's a whole different thing, and.
00:50:23 Jay Owen
And so I would say along those lines.
00:50:26 Jay Owen
Remember that it's not about you.
00:50:29 Jay Owen
It's about the team that you're building, and it's about the customers that you're serving.
00:50:36 Jay Owen
You know Zig Ziglar always used to say if you help enough, other people get what they want, you'll get what you want and I believe that I believe in an abundant mentality I think.
00:50:49 Jay Owen
Many owners, the other thing.
00:50:51 Jay Owen
I would tell a lot of other business.
00:50:52 Jay Owen
Owners is stop worrying about your competition.
00:50:55 Jay Owen
Stop worry about that I I I literally held a workshop here several months ago with other people who do business just like mine.
00:51:02 Jay Owen
Marketing agencies and told them exactly how we do things.
00:51:05 Jay Owen
'cause I believe in abundance mentality.
00:51:07 Jay Owen
I'm not worried about them taking my ideas.
00:51:09 Jay Owen
I was given some coaching advice to somebody just before it on this call and.
00:51:14 Jay Owen
They were asking about some feedback for a keynote that they were planning 'cause I do some keynote.
00:51:18 Jay Owen
Speaking with Charlie.
00:51:18 Jay Owen
Enjoy and.
00:51:20 Jay Owen
Uhm, she said, well, do you think I should be worried about giving too much information away like I'm just too much?
00:51:27 Jay Owen
Like there's no amount that's too much, just tell.
00:51:30 Jay Owen
Them everything they're not going to do.
00:51:31 Jay Owen
It anyway half.
00:51:32 Jay Owen
The time so tell them everything.
00:51:33 Jay Owen
Give them all the value that you possibly can in that talk and, and that's great.
00:51:39 Jay Owen
So don't worry about your competition and and you know.
00:51:44 Jay Owen
Don't make it all about you because at the end of the day you just end up lonely when you do that and I want a great team of people around me that support certainly my vision for the company is my business I have.
00:51:56 Jay Owen
I have to be the one leading the vision for that for sure, but I also want them.
00:51:59 Jay Owen
To be able to live out the vision for their life.
00:52:01 Jay Owen
And if I'm not creating a space where they have the opportunity to do that, why would they stay so?
00:52:06 Jay Owen
We're struggling with turnover right now, and part of that is because they don't not created a space where people have.
00:52:11 Jay Owen
The opportunity to thrive.
00:52:13 Jay Owen
Or they've not created a space.
00:52:14 Jay Owen
People have the opportunity to make more money or have more freedom or have more purpose.
00:52:18 Jay Owen
They're not created community, they've not created culture.
00:52:21 Jay Owen
And so now is the time to step back and go.
00:52:23 Jay Owen
How do we fix those things?
00:52:24 Jay Owen
And I think that's what's great about what you're starting with.
00:52:26 Jay Owen
The improvement at work is that question of how do we make it better?
00:52:29 Jay Owen
For me.
00:52:30 Jay Owen
It's never about how am I.
00:52:32 Jay Owen
Better than somebody else.
00:52:34 Jay Owen
It's how am I better than me.
00:52:35 Jay Owen
Last year the only thing I care about is beating me from last year.
00:52:39 Jay Owen
That's my only competitor.
00:52:40 Jay Owen
It's not anybody else out there.
00:52:42 Justin Winstead
Yeah, and that's that's really big.
00:52:44 Justin Winstead
One of the phrases that we use internally as we talk about ultra trajectory.
00:52:48 Justin Winstead
And that's the thing that we're trying to improve is your own, uh, current trajectory that's not reaching your full potential.
00:52:53 Justin Winstead
We want to alter.
00:52:54 Justin Winstead
That and all you're doing is racing against your own potential.
00:52:57 Justin Winstead
You're not racing against anybody else, and so I love that kind of tie in as we talk about vision as well.
00:53:03 Justin Winstead
We don't have to steal somebody elses vision.
00:53:05 Justin Winstead
You know somebody probably heard you describing your thing and oh oh man, that sounded great.
00:53:09 Justin Winstead
I want that to be my vision too, and maybe it needs to be, but maybe it doesn't, it doesn't.
00:53:13 Justin Winstead
I don't need to take everybody else is God.
00:53:15 Justin Winstead
Given each of us a call and he's given each of us a vision.
00:53:18 Justin Winstead
So let's seek that out and see what we were put on this planet to do and accomplish.
00:53:23 Justin Winstead
And and just take steps.
00:53:24 Justin Winstead
Towards that, so man, you just added a lot.
00:53:28 Justin Winstead
I think of encouragement and inspiration to people to walk towards to not only have a vision, but then to walk towards that vision and accomplish that.
00:53:35 Justin Winstead
So really appreciate you doing that.
00:53:39 Justin Winstead
If our listeners wanted to continue to connect with you.
00:53:41 Justin Winstead
I know we talked about the podcast, but what else could they do to try to reach out and get in touch with Jay if they wanted you to be a keynote speaker or want to engage your company and website design or any of that stuff?
00:53:50 Justin Winstead
How did they reach out to you?
00:53:52 Jay Owen
Sure, I've got a lot of great resources on my personal website. It's Jon live.com on there you can sign up for a free e-mail where I'll send one e-mail a week for a whole year to give you a business tip on how to grow some of their videos. Some of their just a quick tip.
00:54:08 Jay Owen
And, and so you go to jonlive.com my speaking stuff there and grab a copy of my book if you want all that is available at that website.
00:54:16 Justin Winstead
Alright man, well appreciate well, I definitely encourage our listeners connect with you really appreciate all the work you're doing and I know that at your heart your improve or two even though you may not be a one on the India gram, you're you, you're still.
00:54:27 Justin Winstead
You always want to kick it to the next level and grow and make progress, and so we have that kindred spirit there.
00:54:32 Justin Winstead
And man, just thanks a ton for joining us.
00:54:34 Justin Winstead
Today, appreciate you being on the podcast.
00:54:36 Jay Owen
For sure, Justin.
00:54:37 Jay Owen
Thanks for having me.
00:54:38 Justin Winstead
Alright, take care, see you.
00:54:41 Adam Harvell
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00:54:45 Adam Harvell
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00:54:47 Adam Harvell
It's crazy.
00:54:49 Adam Harvell
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00:55:00 Adam Harvell
Until next time keep getting better.
