#124: Next Level Pros - A New Chapter Begins

Speaker 1 There is always, always, always a next level. If you are not actively progressing and working towards the next level, you are either maintaining or dying.
And that is the exact opposite of success.

Speaker 1 The definition of success is, are you progressing? Which way are you turned? Are you working towards the next level? It's not what you did. It's not what you're going to do, right?

Speaker 1 It's like, where am I trending? But whether you're a wantrapreneur or an entrepreneur, we are the fabric of society that can actually push real change.

Speaker 1 Yo, we got some exciting news. Welcome to another episode of what is currently called the Founder Podcast.
And when I say currently, that's part of the exciting news. We are rebranding.

Speaker 2 Yes, we are. Let's go rebrand.

Speaker 1 Let's go.

Speaker 1 So for those that have followed along on our journey on YouTube, we are launching a completely new YouTube channel. What are we calling calling it, Daryl?

Speaker 2 We're calling it the Next Level Pros.

Speaker 1 Next Level Pros.

Speaker 1 So everything that was formerly known as the Founder Podcast or the Founder Project is shifting over.

Speaker 1 So we got Next Level Pros podcast, Next Level pros from our coaching and consulting and the different businesses that we own. Everything is being wrapped underneath that umbrella.

Speaker 1 Let me give you a little background on why we decided to make this shift. So for us,

Speaker 1 we wanted to have something that was more meaningful, more about stood for what we believed in. And you know, the founder podcast, cool, right? A lot of founders.
Yeah. A lot of founders out there.

Speaker 1 And there's not a whole lot of meaning to it. And so

Speaker 1 The thing I love about next level, just the words in and of itself, it means that no matter where you're at on the path of success, whatever you have accomplished, whether family, spiritual, physical, financial, whatever it is, there is always, always, always a next level.

Speaker 1 And in fact, one of the things that we always talk about is that if you are not actively progressing and working towards the next level, you are either maintaining or dying. And that

Speaker 1 is the exact opposite. of success.
It's it really like, I mean, literally you can have a billion dollars in your bank account, which on this graph is like way up here. But if you're trending down.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I can't remember the book. It

Speaker 2 says growing is exhilarating. Maintaining is exhausting.

Speaker 2 And that applies to all aspects of your life, right? And,

Speaker 1 you know, I would add. declining is terrifying.

Speaker 2 But a lot of times I think maintaining is a decline. It's really, really hard to stay flat for very long.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 And, you know, it's interesting. All of us, we change or we chase different emotions, right? Everything in life is attached to emotion.

Speaker 1 The reason we want a good body is for the emotion, either the emotion of feeling good around other people, looking good, or just physically feeling good when we go for a run and the endorphins that come from it, to the relationships and the feelings that we get from good relationships,

Speaker 1 the feeling of freedom that finances. provide, just

Speaker 1 all these different feelings.

Speaker 1 And once again, the interesting thing is when you're on that decline, whether you're starting to gain weight or your bank account is declining or your spiritual progress or your connection with God is declining,

Speaker 1 you start to feel like some level of despair. And those feelings suck.

Speaker 1 When we talk about success, in fact, I was talking with a group of teenagers the other night.

Speaker 1 And I told them, I'm just like,

Speaker 1 the definition of success is, are you progressing? Which way are you turned? Are you working towards the next level? It's not what you did. It's not what you're going to do, right?

Speaker 1 It's like, where am I trending? And

Speaker 1 yeah, so that's really what next level is all about. That is the name.
And with that, we created a new mission, a new direction with new core values.

Speaker 1 Everything that this podcast, everything that our community stands for, and we'd invite you to be a part of our community. There's a lot of different ways to be a part of our community.

Speaker 1 There's free ways like listening to the podcast or being part of like our Facebook groups or just like, you know, following us on social media, right? Like those are great free ways.

Speaker 1 We also have paid ways to be a part of us, like come and experience cool things like masterminds and workshops and trainings and all this stuff. But

Speaker 1 to really encompass it all, so you guys understand what next level is all about, what we believe in, what our core values are.

Speaker 1 First of all, we went through an exercise of

Speaker 1 designing that out.

Speaker 2 Designing core values.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 And this is actually something that we teach business owners. We say, look, it's impossible to have great culture unless you have a mission, a vision, and core values.
Yep. Right.

Speaker 1 Because the mission is like the overall reason why you're doing it. The vision is what you're going to do.

Speaker 1 And the core values is the reason why you do everything you do. Right.
Like that is

Speaker 1 how you get it done. And so

Speaker 1 when we've, we went through this the other day and we said, okay. We know what next level means, but like what is what is our mission? Like, what do we want to accomplish? And we started wordsmithing.

Speaker 1 We used ChatGBT. we we kind of went through it all

Speaker 1 came up with a few ideas um one one thing that i've always thought and stuck kind of with the whole management team is like whenever you have a mission like starting with an action something that's that's happening right like so with with solgen we had building a brighter future for our people right and so we we said okay what word really resonates with us that is something actively happening right?

Speaker 1 And the thing that we've always talked about with culture is culture is built by what?

Speaker 2 Design.

Speaker 1 Culture is built by design. And so we said, okay,

Speaker 1 we like that word, right? Like design, creation, building, like those are all really cool action verbs. And so

Speaker 1 we kind of came up with a couple things. We're like, dude, how can we implement design? And so we started like, okay, designing.

Speaker 1 right designing was the first word that we wanted to come up with and um

Speaker 1 you know, we talked about

Speaker 1 like, how do we make our communities better? Like kind of the overall mission that like we want to impact a lot of business owners. We want to change the world through entrepreneurship.

Speaker 1 We want to help entrepreneurs see how important it is to.

Speaker 1 impact their employees physically, economically with their associations and their spirituality so that they can in turn do that for their communities, right?

Speaker 1 And so we kind of worked through all that. And I loved what Daryl came up with.

Speaker 1 I was like, ah, you know, designing. So initially it was like, okay, what about if we went with like

Speaker 1 designing lives

Speaker 1 that built better communities or something, right? Like that was kind of where we started.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we like where that's at.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 there was a couple other words that we decided to change.

Speaker 1 What were they?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so we went...

Speaker 2 I think we were a community and then I think there was a different word we were using, but we just kept pushing and trying to figure out what resonated.

Speaker 2 And going through that process was fun because there was a little bit of agreeing, disagreeing, going back and forth, picking apart each other's ideas, which is never, not always fun.

Speaker 2 But I think we came up with something that we all connected with and mean something.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And so what we ultimately settled on was designing lives that impact the world.

Speaker 2 And I think one thing with the next level, with

Speaker 2 the mission statement,

Speaker 2 we have to choose, right?

Speaker 2 If you're trying to design something, you have to put in effort. You have to make a choice.
And in today's world, there's kind of those who choose to design their lives, choose how they want to live.

Speaker 2 And then there are those who just follow what's being told. And there's so much being told to us these days that if you're not deliberate in designing your life, it's a scary place to be.

Speaker 2 But I think being deliberate deliberate and choosing and designing what you do for your health and what you do for your

Speaker 2 economic situation, for your family, for everything

Speaker 2 is very empowering.

Speaker 2 Not always easy,

Speaker 2 but it's empowering.

Speaker 1 So to kind of wrap it in,

Speaker 1 there's a scripture that comes from a book of scripture that I love that says to act or be acted upon, right?

Speaker 1 And when we design,

Speaker 1 we're choosing to act, right?

Speaker 1 To design it, to make it what our,

Speaker 1 or we're going to fit into somebody else's plan, right? We're going to be acted upon by the

Speaker 1 natural things of the world, other people that want to do with us what they want to do, right? And so,

Speaker 1 yeah, really the goal is just like, we've got to act, we've got to design, we've got to take action, right?

Speaker 1 It's not just financial. A lot of people look at success as only financial.
It's not. Absolutely isn't.

Speaker 1 I love, love, love. If you guys have watched any of my podcasts, I love the quote by Naval

Speaker 1 that, so Naval, he's like kind of like a modern day philosopher.

Speaker 1 And Daryl shared this with me years ago, and it just stuck with me.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the quote is,

Speaker 1 The best thing you can do is get rich as fast as possible, for then you will realize that's what life is not about.

Speaker 1 right and so like yes finances are absolutely imperative to be able to have the time energy and and money to be able to do what you want but all the other aspects if you are if you have an empty relationship account if you have an empty spiritual account if you have if you weigh 500 pounds you know and just don't have the energy to be able to go and even do the things that you love to do dude that's miserable.

Speaker 2 Do you want the real quote?

Speaker 1 What's the real quote?

Speaker 2 So the real quote is if you want happiness,

Speaker 2 the first thing you need to do is get rich. So, you know, money has nothing to do with happiness.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 2 And it is true because as a kid, you know, not having a lot, you see people with a lot. And I don't know what your mind does, but it kind of does this.
This illusion that, man, that's happiness.

Speaker 2 That's joy. And I look back at my childhood and like, I loved my childhood.
Like, I didn't have a lot, but it didn't impact my joint happiness.

Speaker 1 It didn't matter, right? Like, like you were happy. And so for whatever reason, we get in the rat race as adults that we chase the money.
Now, granted, once again, you do need money, right?

Speaker 1 Like you have to have the basics to be able. But

Speaker 1 the goal, going back to what we were talking about, is how do we just get on that trajectory that is always up and to the right in everything, financially, in our fitness, like constantly improving, looking for the biohacks, looking for the things that give us more energy, that give us more meaning.

Speaker 2 Like Dana White, he said, I'll never go to the doctor to figure out how to improve my health. It's like, that's not what doctors are for.

Speaker 2 Doctors are great at trauma and at like taking care of those type of situations. But to like improve your health, It's what you do in your house.
It's what you do in your extra time.

Speaker 2 It's what you put into your mind.

Speaker 2 All those things matter way more than figuring out a prescription or a pill or something like that.

Speaker 1 And those are all, yes, part of the recipe of getting to the next level.

Speaker 1 And so with that, so that's, that's the mission of our community, of what we're all about at Next Level Pros

Speaker 1 is designing lives that impact the world.

Speaker 1 Because we believe that the message that we share of the whole human approach, that as entrepreneurs, whether you're a wantrapreneur or an entrepreneur, like everybody should be one of those two.

Speaker 1 If you got a job right now and you're listening to this podcast, you got to figure out some way that you can create value outside of your nine to five. Okay.

Speaker 1 But whether you're a wontrepreneur or an entrepreneur, we are the fabric of society that can actually push real change.

Speaker 1 Because that whole myth of

Speaker 1 finances are going to solve my problems, everybody will come to us as an entrepreneur with the idea that if we pay them a paycheck, it's going to solve their problems.

Speaker 1 But if we can then in turn provide them so much more than just the economic, we can actually help them be better physically, better with their communities, their relationships, their spirituality, like that

Speaker 1 will change the world faster than any politician, faster than any type of drug or solution that's out there. And so like, that's what this community is all about.

Speaker 2 You know, I think it's interesting how did we come here? How did we arrive at this destination where we've realized the importance of the whole picture, right? The whole life.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I can't help but think like, obviously, I think being raised the way we were raised was super important. Yep.

Speaker 2 You know, having big families where you had to fight a lot to even be heard or you had to support others when you didn't want to, you know, all those things tie into it.

Speaker 2 And then I think about, you know, some of our failures and successes. You know, we've had failures in business where we're like, dude, we...

Speaker 2 we were doing good, but we don't enjoy this. We don't enjoy what we're doing.
And it seemed empty. And then we go work for companies.

Speaker 2 You know, one great example is Vivet was a phenomenal company to work for. They taught so many of these principles.

Speaker 2 And then we take that and when we applied it into our business and when we added to it and we had all the things that we were trying to learn and grow from, all of a sudden we realized, man, this impact thing is way bigger.

Speaker 2 And then we started saying, hey, well, maybe entrepreneurs want this or need this. And we didn't realize like everybody wants this.

Speaker 1 And yeah,

Speaker 1 it is fun just to look back and see like the different times where it just like started to click.

Speaker 1 Like 2015, like I always knew that taking care of my body was super important, but it wasn't until I entered a competition, I lost 45 pounds of fat, gained 20 pounds of muscle, got down to 9.3% body fat.

Speaker 1 I'm like, dude, this impacts so much more than just my fitness.

Speaker 2 But it's like you didn't realize you had the choice. Right.
Right? It's kind of, and I, and I've, I've experienced the same thing.

Speaker 2 It's like you don't realize the choices you have.

Speaker 2 I don't know why they feel hidden, but they do. Right.
And then once you're aware of them, it like can change so many things.

Speaker 1 It's waking up to the world that we can be designers, right? That we can design our life, which goes back to our mission, right? Designing lives that impact the world.

Speaker 1 And so, guys, we're just super excited to share this community, to share the new podcast, the new direction with everybody. And we would invite you to engage in some way, right?

Speaker 1 There's so many different ways that you can engage in community. If you're listening to this podcast right now, one of the ways you can engage, you can drop a review.

Speaker 1 You can say, man, I love what these guys are about. I love the message that they're sharing.
I love the impact, the vision, the direction, right? Like that's one way that you can engage.

Speaker 1 You can share this podcast with somebody else. You can subscribe to this podcast so that you get indications every time we share something, right?

Speaker 1 Like those are like some of the very basic levels that you can be involved in the community. You can interact with us on social media.
You can comment. You can like.
You can buy our products.

Speaker 1 You can come to our events. There's so, like I said, there's a hundred different ways.
But what we would invite you more than anything is to be involved in some level. Ask yourself,

Speaker 1 how do I sync up with this type of mission? Am I about it? Can I get behind designing lives that impact the world?

Speaker 1 Because frankly, Daryl and I and the rest of our team, we're not going to be able to do it on our own.

Speaker 1 We can influence as much as we can our direct followership, but until this mission becomes bigger than us, bigger than our channel, bigger than our show, bigger than our immediate circle of influence, our mission will not be accomplished.

Speaker 1 And so we need you. We need you guys to be a part of this.
And once again, it doesn't cost you money. It costs a little time, costs a little energy, costs a little effort,

Speaker 1 a little design, if you will.

Speaker 2 There you go. And I think, too, if you're sitting there thinking like, I don't buy into this.
I don't understand that aspect.

Speaker 2 I don't get why they would say that.

Speaker 2 Dude, let us know.

Speaker 2 We would love feedback. We'd love to see where you're at, how you think through things, because you're not the only one.

Speaker 2 You'll find, like, wherever you're at, there's people around you thinking the same things. And so as you level up, there's people there too.
And

Speaker 2 so wherever you're at, like, let us know what's on your mind.

Speaker 2 That's super important for us to be able to share

Speaker 2 more insight. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Share with us the importance.
And so with that, what we're doing is we're making a big shift to the way that the show is actually ran. Right.

Speaker 1 So like up until this point, the show has been me sharing a lot of things.

Speaker 1 some of my previous experiences, my story and those things, which is all very important.

Speaker 1 Those are important. And then also we've interviewed a lot of very, very, very successful entrepreneurs, right? Guys that have had $100 million exits worth a billion dollars.

Speaker 1 I think back to like a guy like Naveen Jane, who's literally had two different billion-dollar exits, right?

Speaker 1 Like Grant Cardone, Alex Ermosi, so many just elite-level entrepreneurs that have been a part of the founder podcast, right? They were founders, they were great, they're great people.

Speaker 1 The shift of the show is now going to be entrepreneurs that are striving to change change the world and we help them live doing so.

Speaker 1 And this means diving into their financials, diving into their sales strategies, their marketing strategies, their personal lives, their fitness,

Speaker 1 their spirituality, whatever is holding them back, whatever is the lid currently on their life that is keeping them from getting to the next level. And on the show,

Speaker 1 we are going to be doing this live.

Speaker 1 And hopefully, as you guys tune in and listen to us solve these problems, the same things that we do at our workshops, the same things that we do at our masterminds, like live consultations, which literally we charge thousands of dollars for.

Speaker 1 In fact, I just had a guy the other day pay me $10,000 for one hour of my time, right? One hour of my time, $10,000. Like this is...
This is the type of thing that people pay for.

Speaker 1 We are going to be doing that live on these shows. And we are opening this up to listeners and viewers.

Speaker 1 If you are a listener and viewer and you are an entrepreneur or a wentrepreneur, you have an idea for a business.

Speaker 1 And the reason we're targeting entrepreneurs, once again, is that we believe that entrepreneurs shape society and have more power than any politician, anybody else. So

Speaker 1 if you are currently have a job and don't have a side hustle, but you want to be a... an entrepreneur, you have something that you want to go.
We'd invite you. We have an application.

Speaker 1 We're actually going to drop it in the show notes. There's an application where you'll be able to come in, be in the studio.
In fact, we're going to be reshaping this whole studio.

Speaker 1 We're going a little bit more. Shout out to my boy Patrick Bed David, PBD.

Speaker 1 We're going to go a little PBD style where we're going to be desks and computers and notes and different things where it's going to be like a lot more interactive, right?

Speaker 1 And we're going to be sharing stuff on screens and Googling and chat GBTing and just the same way that we workshop and the way that we actually work through problems, right?

Speaker 1 Not just off the top of the dome, which, you know, we got pretty good domes up here, but

Speaker 1 we're going to be doing all that. And so if that sounds like something that you'd be interested in and you won't have to pay for, okay, there's going to be a application link in the show notes.

Speaker 1 Go ahead and hit that.

Speaker 1 and apply and you'll be able to come here Pasco Washington Washington state be able to to come in So initially it'll probably be a few more of the local business owners or whatnot, but we would encourage anybody that's interested to fly out here.

Speaker 1 Once again, we charge thousands of dollars for this. If you get selected for it, I would highly encourage you to come out, be on the show, be vulnerable.

Speaker 1 And so that's one of the things that we're going to be encouraging. We're going to be encouraging just a ton of vulnerability, like openness.

Speaker 1 And in fact, we've already shot a couple of these, and it's been really cool. That's awesome.
Like

Speaker 1 we had a guy that like totally, totally, he's got pretty big influence online and he opened up like, this is it. This is how I'm making money.
This is where I suck. This is where I'm great.

Speaker 1 And we dove in and we're like, dude, you can scale here. This is how you can do it.
This is your gross profit margin.

Speaker 1 If you have this plus your sales and marketing, there's no reason why you shouldn't be hiring this, this, and this. Go and scale that up, test that out.
If it works, go and do this, this, and this.

Speaker 1 And so we had a very strategic session with some of these shows already. And you're going to continue to see this type of effort, this type of show.

Speaker 1 And we just view it as one of the most valuable ways that we can impact the world, right?

Speaker 1 Like when we talk about designing lives that impact the world, sharing with you guys the way that we think through business, the way that we think through life, the way that we design business and life, and really getting you guys behind that whole mission so you can go and share it with the world.

Speaker 1 The other thing I wanted to

Speaker 1 talk about is

Speaker 1 as part of that wordsmithing of our mission, we also wordsmithed our core values, right?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we thought through what I've always liked and what we train our different businesses on is like, okay, if you can figure out how to fit your core values into

Speaker 1 into some like a word that it stands for, what do they call that? Can't even think of it.

Speaker 1 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 A

Speaker 1 acronym, thank you. It just came from the dome, finally.
Or maybe from God, thank you.

Speaker 1 So an acronym, if you can create some sort of acronym that's easy to remember, easy to,

Speaker 1 for your employees to be able to put to memory, you want to do that. And so we said, okay, is there any way that we can fit our core values into the word next?

Speaker 1 And so then

Speaker 1 what did we do? We chat GBT'd and we went through and we we said what's important to us and how can it fit into this and wherever it is. And so

Speaker 1 the four core values we came up with, first and foremost, N,

Speaker 1 network.

Speaker 1 Daryl, why is network important to us?

Speaker 2 Your net worth is your network. Your network is your net worth.

Speaker 1 Exactly. You know, that's definitely like...
kind of the thing that everybody thinks of.

Speaker 1 And on top of that, it's like

Speaker 1 we value relationships over here at next level. Like, like that is what we love doing.

Speaker 1 Like, if me and Daryl were doing what we love to every single day, it's out amongst the people, creating relationships, seeing how we can come together and change the lives, how we can impact the world.

Speaker 2 Kind of goes into that whole, like, you are like the five people you're around the most and the books you read or something like that.

Speaker 2 And I think your network isn't all about like making money off of people or business deals.

Speaker 1 It's about emulating the qualities right impact baby yep it's about the the impact that they have in your life and and so surrounding yourself by people that are at the next level is one of the biggest ways to change your life exactly so so for us like we're like man that fits really good right network fits into next it's it's right up there the second one which i told daryl I will die on the hill to make sure that this is one of our core values is the word excellence.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm just,

Speaker 1 for whatever reason, that's a word that I've just been passionate about for a long time. I read the book, The Excellence Dividend, a long time ago,

Speaker 1 which really had an impact on me.

Speaker 1 Part of SoulGents, S-O-L-G-E-N, the E was for excellence. In my family, we use the word remember, and one of the E's is excellence.
So it's been a previous business, my family's core values.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, dude, we've we've got to make this because,

Speaker 1 you know, excellence, it's not about what you did or what you're going to do. It's what you're doing right now.
But I think even more important

Speaker 1 is excellence doesn't scream perfection. It's the pursuit of perfection.

Speaker 1 Right? Like, there's only one perfect human being that's ever walked the earth. And.

Speaker 1 You know, I want to emulate his excellence

Speaker 1 as much as possible. And

Speaker 1 so,

Speaker 1 and excellence obviously can be just applied to everything right like am i giving it my best effort in the moment like if i was judged off of this moment right now how would i be judged and so um that like i like i said i i told i told everybody like like you

Speaker 1 i'm willing to change my mind on all the other ones but this is the one i'm gonna die on the hill so uh that that one's pretty pretty exciting so we so we have network we have excellence and then x i I think I think this one even screens probably screams a lot of what Daryl represents I'm all about it too but Daryl is probably this what does X stand for X is experience and I think life is all about your experience right you talked about your emotion and you create emotions based off the experiences you have and so you can create wild experiences you can create

Speaker 2 boring experiences you can create whatever you want but I think I think life has a lot to offer if you're looking for the experiences.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 absolutely. And like,

Speaker 1 you,

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 1 experience life physically, spiritually, like all these, all these ways. Like, we get out.

Speaker 1 Part of what we do, like when we do masterminds, we always make sure there's like a physical experience, right?

Speaker 1 Whether we're cold plunging or zip lining through jungles or swimming with manta rays or snowmobiling through mountains, right?

Speaker 2 Like, because it's cool when you, when you're with a group of people and you have an experience, you share that, you share the emotions, you share the

Speaker 2 any everything that was a part of that. And that's, that creates connection.

Speaker 1 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 With that, I've always said, like, whenever I've moved into a new congregation in my church, I never connect with the people in my church until I've done something outside of church with them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right. Until I've played basketball on a Wednesday night, gone and done a service project, went and did a camp out, something

Speaker 1 that is outside of the day-to-day,

Speaker 1 right? And I think that's like what's so important that what we stand for is like get outside of the norm. Get outside.
Like that's what experience is about.

Speaker 1 Like sure, you can do your busy work as, as, and the boring work as Alex Ramosi talks about. But if you are not going out and getting on the boat and

Speaker 1 really building trust with your family and your team and your community, right? Like you are just missing on the whole purpose of it. I mean, even in business, right?

Speaker 2 It's not about

Speaker 2 you come to work, you do your job, you go home. It's like, how can you come to work, have an experience, take that and go home? Exactly.
And that experience is usually built around culture.

Speaker 2 It's built around improving yourself on other aspects. It's about doing your job with excellence.

Speaker 2 Yeah, those things really drive.

Speaker 1 Which leads us into the last core value of Next Level Pros, which is trust.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 one thing that we have learned throughout our careers is that in business, there's no such thing as loyalty. Loyalty is blind faith and typically what exists in a slave type mindset, right?

Speaker 1 Where somebody is owned by a business or whatnot, where we've found the most success, the best culture is when there is a mutual trust in every relationship where I am paying and compensating you fairly and in turn you are bringing as much value as you possibly can and that we are providing a roadmap a direction of opportunity for each other right and and it's and it's a it's a mutual it's a mutual trust and and I love what you know Covey talks about trust.

Speaker 1 Trust is gained one drop in a bucket at a time and can be lost with a swift kick.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 But the other thing is it can always be built back. Right.

Speaker 1 but it takes time. It's it is the foundation of every functional team, right? We talk about the five dysfunctions of a team.
Number one dysfunction is lack of trust.

Speaker 1 So what is the number one function, best function of a team? It's trust.

Speaker 2 I also like, so in my family statement, trust in the unknown is really important. Yeah.
And that's something I learned through some of these meditation conferences I've been to.

Speaker 2 And what that means is trusting in God, but trusting in the unknown, right?

Speaker 2 Instead of us knowing, okay, if I do this, this workout this way, and I'll have that experience and this, this, this, be open to like, hey, I don't have a clue how this is going to work, but I'm going to enter into this using our word in it with excellence.

Speaker 2 I'm going to put everything I have into it and the outcome will be greater than I could imagine. Yep.
And I feel like I made that little shift a few years ago and I feel like life is very different.

Speaker 2 Yep. It's like...

Speaker 1 You know, it's interesting. You talk about trusting the unknown.
I think it's

Speaker 1 we're able to take,

Speaker 1 perform trust in the unknown when we have a history in that relationship, right?

Speaker 1 So like if I have a history of working with God, right, or working with Daryl, and history has always indicated that this guy's got my back. He's got my best intentions in mind and everything else.

Speaker 1 It's way easy to enter into the trust of unknown

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 I know that there's there's a level there, right? Alignment. There's alignment.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the other thing I love about the word trust is like there's two types of trust. There's trust and character and trust and ability, right? And it's up to us to have both.

Speaker 1 Ability is your knowledge. Like

Speaker 1 the easiest way to always understand this is like, do you trust your grandma? Yes, that's character. Do you trust your grandma doing open heart surgery on you? No, that's ability.
Right. And so

Speaker 1 in a professional setting, it is imperative that we have both, that we provide trust in character and trust in ability. We're constantly

Speaker 1 upping our game in education and knowledge and putting ourselves in the right room so we can increase our ability and be able to do what we said we were going to do, right? Fulfill on it.

Speaker 1 And then being a man or woman of character where

Speaker 1 a handshake means something, a word means something,

Speaker 1 where we can go

Speaker 1 and once again, the alignment has come from historical experience together.

Speaker 1 And so, anyways,

Speaker 1 those are the four core values of the community. We'd invite you to buy into those as well

Speaker 1 with our mission.

Speaker 1 So our mission of designing lives that impact the world with our network being excellent, creating experiences, and doing it at a level of trust that is beyond what you've been able to experience thus far

Speaker 1 in your relationships. And so, man, guys, we are, we're excited.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's going to be fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, real excited. And one thing I will say for those that are watching this show or listening, I guess as well, we are missing one of our key show homies.

Speaker 1 He's in the hospital with his wife right now, Levi Ringo. You're going to see him a lot.
You've probably seen him on a few of the shows up to date.

Speaker 1 Myself,

Speaker 1 I will continue to be leading the show, but you are definitely going to see a lot more of Daryl, of Levi participating, even being hosts of

Speaker 1 some of these events and whatnot. And so

Speaker 1 that will be the main leadership of what you'll be seeing. But behind the scenes,

Speaker 1 there's a huge team, there's a community, which once again, we would invite you to be a part as we make the shift from the founder podcast and the founder project over to next level pros.

Speaker 1 And we help you strive to get to the next level. Until next time.