KGCI: Real Estate on Air - Glitter Unicorns!

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

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get your pen and paper, and let's get real and raw. What is going on and welcome back? to another episode of the Real and Raw show. Hopefully you guys are dominating the week. You're crushing March and you're finishing this quarter strong. Today's episode, I want to go over one of the events that have happened here locally, but I think would really affect everybody that's listening to this and how we can have some breakthroughs through this.

So this entire podcast, entire show is all about what, right? Real tools, real events for real change. And this is a real event that has happened locally here in our Santa Rosa Beach Destin market. And it all circles around six and seven-year-old tee ball teams. So we are a part of a teabal team called the Glitter Unicorns, All-Girl Team. So our daughter plays, and she played last year in the spring. It was an all-girl team, the first all-girl tea ball team. And then in a fall they played again.

Arir took a break. She's in cheer. And then she came back again this spring. Once again, all-girl tea ball team. Now it's an advanced tee ball team. So there's coach pitch and everything else. Well, last year in the fall, they made some waves because, yeah, they're an all-girls team, but they went undefeated. Right.

And people were excited to see them again this year, now advanced from just a tee to now obviously be coach pitch. And so we started the season a week ago. But a couple weeks before the season, there is a. gentleman that is in our community that sent a text message out. And this text message, it shocked a lot of people, even myself. And it really took a little bit of a microscope on how people really view competition or view things that aren't maybe quote unquote normal. Right. So our team, the glitter unicorns, we started two weeks ago, right? But this once again happen a few weeks prior and I want to bring it up to you guys because I think it can make some

awareness into how we can act differently and really raise our standard. But if you are watching us on YouTube, go to your shirt. If you're not watching this on YouTube, go to YouTube, check it out. Just hit John Morone in the search. My name will obviously come up. Our channel will come up. Subscribe to it hit that bell. So you get to see obviously all the video footage of this show as well as all the other content that we put out on YouTube that doesn't get distributed on whatever podcast platform and listening to this on. So this happened February 1st. I got to pull up on my phone.

And there is a coach that is in our league. And we know a lot of the coaches, right? I'm an assistant coach. You know, our head coach is a few different teams in the league, you know, for different ages. And this came in February 1st. I'm going to read this text messages. And his text message is from, once again, a coach that has sons in our Little League. And our Little League is called South Walton Little League.

You may have even heard of it because it kind of went, it went pretty, I don't know about national, but I'm pretty sure it went national because we got people from all over the country and other countries going to hang commenting on this post. And he sent this. And once again, he's a coach. I want to keep reading this up. He's a coach. And he has two sons.

He's a coach. He should be a leader. So he sent a text message. and it says, hey, Michelle, which is our coach's name, is there really a team called the Glitter Unicorns? Michelle responds. Yep, that's all, that's my all girls team. This man then proceeds, and I say man very lightly,

he says, I'm fine with girls playing t-ball. I played with them when I was a kid in Pensacola, though I'm not going to have my boys play a team called the Glitter Unicorns and probably lose. I think we're going to pull out of the league and I'll not be coaching. No offense to you, but I don't agree with that. So let's recap this text message. And let's dissect it a little bit.

So this guy asks, is there really a team called Glitter Unicorn? She proudly says, yeah, absolutely. That's my all-girls team. And his response is, I played with girls when I was younger, okay? but I'm not going to have my boys play a team called the glitter unicorns. Then he backs it up by saying, and probably lose to them. Like insane. I think we're going to pull out of the league and I'm not going to coach anymore.

Thank you, by the way. No offense to you, but I don't agree with that. What do you guys think about that text message? What do you think? This is an all-girls team. that is playing in a league that those girls allowed to play, but it's usually mixed between boys and girls on a team. And this guy, again, I'm not going to use the word man again,

because I don't really think that he is hearing this, decides that he's pulling his kids out of the league, which to me is a big thing, you know, bigger than him not coaching and not coach it. And he backs it all up by saying he doesn't want his boys to lose to an all-girls team named the Glitter Unicorn. So she posted this and there's been a lot of a lot of noise around it. So, you know, we've got bat sponsored.

We got helmet sponsored. They're supposed to name possibly a field after the glitter unicorns. But that's not what I want to talk about, right? I don't talk about the sponsors and all the people that came out and supported, which a ton. I mean, a ton. There's been over 600 shares of this thing. And people from Australia, you know, have to come and dropped in, hey,

When can I go ahead and purchase some swag? Hey, when can I go ahead and watch a live viewing of this, you know, of one of the glitter unicorns games? The big thing in why I wanted to bring this up today is because there are, whether it's children or whether it's, you know, young adults that are looking towards us for guidance. And we need to get better at leading them. Plain and simple.

We need to get better at leading them. Now, maybe it starts with leading ourselves better first. But to go ahead and say that I'm pulling my children, children out of a sport, out of a league, that they're maybe used to planning, maybe their friends are in, all because your point of view is so strong in a situation that it shouldn't be is absolutely absurd. These kids and these young adults, they need better guidance. They're not getting it from the top.

They're not getting it from our government. They're not. They're not getting it from social media for the most part. They're not getting it from TV shows. They're more than likely not getting it from the music they listen to. So the next generation is not getting guided by the music they listen to. They're not getting guided by the government. They're not guided by what they're watching on TV.

Who and probably not even in their public schools by their teachers, not calling all teachers, but like the curriculum, right? So not even on them, but the curriculum. So my question is who the hell is going to lead this next generation into becoming better human beings, better women, better men, strong character, who is going to do it? Now, it may not be you that could change everything, but you can change something. I want everybody listening to us to know that you need to start to be the standard that our kids and the kids in your community and the young adults in community need to see they don't need to to see the negative uh conversation just happens you know between that text message they need to see people

coming together because the world shall pull people apart they need to see you know people going ahead and rooting for each other because the world is telling you to root against the other person they need that in your local community so if you want to be a top agent that's cool But it's even cooler is being a better human that then could produce better results, obviously in your real estate business. Let's take this message of this guy saying that he's pulling his kids out of the league because he didn't think it was okay to have an all-girls team as a sign for you to step up in your community, for you to step up for your children, for you to step up in, maybe you don't

have children, but step up in your community for the kids that are looking up. to you or maybe they don't even look up to you right now, but how can you enter their space? How can you get into their environment to start guiding these kids? Look, I love coaching, right? I coach football. I coach football. I coached basketball. I coached soccer.

Why do I love coaching? A, I love sports and I love competition. But I love it because I get to see the progress of these young little human beings and hopefully be able to give them a little bit different way of living, different way of thinking. I remember when I was growing up, I played sports my entire life, but there was a point in time where I kind of pulled back from sports. You know, I didn't go to school in fifth grade, so they held me back. I gained a lot of weight. I had no friends.

And I was going in a sixth grade. And now mind you, from fifth grade to sixth grade, there's, you leave one school to go to another in our area. So I'm leaving one school to go to another. I'm now overweight. I don't know anybody because I got hell back. and I remember a wrestling coach, Mr. Brown, Donovan Brown, for Vets Middle, Veteran's Middle. That's where I went in Bricktown, New Jersey. And I remember him, like, saying, dude, I want you to wrestle.

I need you to wrestle. And I was pushing back. I was pushing back. And finally, he probably said some choice words I didn't want to hear, but I needed to hear. And I went ahead and wrestled. I lost 25 pounds during hell week, which is like two and a half weeks of just, straight hell, as it says. And I wrestled and I wrestled pretty, pretty damn good. I was wrestled up in weight because I lost 25 pounds, but more importantly than losing the weight, more importantly

than my record, the most important thing is it started to transform me into thinking differently, transform me into understanding what hard work needs to look like, understanding that, hey, when you don't want to do something like in hell week, there's people that are counting on you, right? Your teammates are counting on you. Even though it's an individual sport on a mat as far as one verse one. It's a group sport, right? It's a team sport when it comes down to the end of the matches and who wins. So here's what I'm saying. Without Donald and Brown, I may not be on this podcast. I may not have touched thousands of people in a way I have to be able to transform their life. I might not, the children that I have. I don't know, right? Maybe it came later in life and maybe it didn't come in time.

I don't know, but Donovan Brown, my literally sixth grade wrestling coach, transform me in that moment. If he never grabbed me and told me what I needed to hear and help me understand how to lead myself so I can lead others, I'm not sure if I would have had the impact or even be in this world anymore because I have an addictive personality and I might have went the other way even harder than I did, right? I got close, but I kept going back to thinking about Mr. Brown, right? like how he led me at such a young age.

And these kids are so impressionable at this age, right? Six years old to sixth grade, even into high school. So I just want everybody to just be super aware like, shit, man, what you do matters for way more than you. There are kids that need or help out there to guide them, right? To show them what they should be doing and what they shouldn't be doing. But doing it in a way of love, care, empathy. and challenge. And just listening to that,

or reading that text message is just made me even more aware of why I want to get more involved with the community. And as I said, you don't have to have kids. You don't even have to like sports. But you could do something for your community to help these children

that don't have the right guidance. And sometimes they go home and they have no guidance at all, right? I'm not sure what's worse. No guidance or the wrong guidance. I don't know. I know. what's better though, the proper guidance, right, from the right angle.

And so if you're sitting there right now and you have kids, ask yourself truly, are you leading yourself to be able to lead them? Are you being the example or are you just speaking the example? Some of you guys are telling your kids to go practice. Hey, go practice to be the best, whatever it is you want to do. But yet you are sitting there not practicing, which I'm going to have another episode about that next week. So listen up closely next week.

Or some of you guys are, you know, sitting there and like, ah, I don't have kids. I'll worry about it. I get there. No. Start now. Start guiding these people around you. Stop being ignorant to the things that are going on in the world, right?

Because if they're looking for guidance through the music, not happening. Through TV shows, not happening. Through the curriculum in school, not happening. Right. And now men, quote unquote, like this on their team that's supposed to coach them, that's bullshit. These kids are going to be set up to fail. And we don't need that.

They don't deserve that. And maybe it's more personal for me because I had such big influences in my life when it came down to coaches or even teachers. I've had teachers in my life that really influenced me. I've had bosses back in a day that have really influenced me. I was very fortunate. But I also know that now I got to give that back. I have to give that back.

So maybe take a second and think, was there a teacher that has really transformed you? Was there a coach that transformed you? Was there an individual that was in your life that was a little bit older than you that helped transform you to help you see differently and do differently? Pay it back. Pay it back. And so that text message taught me anything.

It's that we've got to show up better for our community. We've got to show it better for our kids. We've got to show up better for the kids that are in. our community and we got to take initiative. We got to take initiative. I can only imagine if my daughter was on that guy's team. What would he be teaching her? Maybe not even actually by words, but by his actions, by his demeanor, by his mannerism. What would he be teaching her? She may never want to go back to play baseball again, which is fine. But worse is what did he create as a pattern for her, right? How did he infiltrate maybe her brain? And,

and create this new negative thought pattern because that guy obviously has some negative thought patterns. So now the next step is check out your teachers, check out the coaches for your kids. Really see if they are the leader that those kids need in their life. Really see if they're the leader those kids need in their life. And do they have the character, right, that you want your children to mimic? Because they will. Because they will. So to build strong character, you must have. have strong character. To build strong character, you must have strong character. So what are you doing

to lead others, whether it's children, whether it's young adults, whether it's the people around you, to help them grow? What are you doing? We want to build strong communities. It starts with building a strong foundation in your own life. You want to build strong children? It starts with building a great and strong foundation in your own life. Start there. This world needs more people like that and less people like this dude in that text message. South Walton, Little League did the right thing. They actually took him and they said, all right, bro.

Not only can you not coach this year, you are out of all of our leagues. His kids aren't, right? Which good. But that guy cannot coach anymore in our league. week. Good. That's the way it should be. Thankfully, he showed his colors before he implitated, you know, somebody else's, his mind or, you know, took these kids and made them think differently, do differently. And, you know, I just look out it and it's like, man, these kids, they can't get, they can't get the right guidance from anybody, right? Let's be the guiding lights that they need.

So I want to know what you think about this. I want to know what you think about this. I want to know what you think about that text message. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to go ahead and I want you to on Facebook or Instagram, reshare this and tell everybody a little bit about what happened. Tell everybody a little bit about this situation with this guy and what he said. And then let me hear your thoughts. Now, why do I want you to do that? Because the more people that link in arms in the right way, right, when you speak your truth, don't be scared. Oh my God, what if people don't agree with me? Let them, like, stop not posting things about how you feel or your beliefs because

you're scared to lose a deal because you're scared to lose business. Stop holding back on your beliefs because you're scared to lose a deal. That's not authentic. That's not true. You'll find more people that are in your corner that will ride with you and you'll start to fend off, right, all these people that aren't in your corner. And I'm not saying they need to agree with you. All I'm saying is some of you guys are not speaking your truth, all because you're scared to lose a deal. And that is not authentic. That is not the way to

build a business. Know who you are. Stand in it. Don't need to argue with anybody in regards to the difference that you have versus them, but don't not post something because of it. So that's what I want you to. I'm challenging you right now. Repost this. Okay. So repost it, share it out on Facebook, on Instagram, tag me at Rio John Morone or Jonathan Marone on Facebook. And please, let me know what you think and let the world know what you think about this situation. Whether you agree with me or you don't, I'm okay with it.

But I want to know, do you agree with me? Do you agree with South Walton Little League and how they approached it? Or would you do something different? Let me know. Tag me. I told you guys I'm going to show you guys a shirt. So if you're watching this on YouTube, you get to see it. So hold on.

So we got the swag right there, glitter unicorn swag on. We are playing this weekend again. So we got to get this W. Right. We got to get this W. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Hope you guys share this thing out and let me know what you guys think you would have done. Once again, it has nothing to do with real estate but everything to do with life.

And if that's the case, it has everything to do with your business. Appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. Make sure you don't wait for the door of opportunity to open. Go kick that damn door down. Take what is yours this week. Until the next time.