Mick Unplugged - Bryan Harris | Blueprints for Business: Crafting Success through Growth Tools
Episode Date: July 29, 2024Mick Hunt explores Brian Harris' journey from starting Growth Tools to becoming a beacon for entrepreneurs seeking clarity and efficiency in their business strategies. Brian discusses how his methods ...have evolved to include the technical aspects of business growth, personal fulfillment, and purpose in entrepreneurship.Brian Harris' Background: From early challenges to creating Growth Tools, Brian has focused on achieving entrepreneurial success through structured, math-based approaches to business growth. Defining Moments: Brian shares transformative insights from his coaching experiences and the importance of aligning one's business with one's inherent strengths and passions. Discussion Topics:The origin story of Growth Tools and the philosophy behind its development.Brian's unique approach to business coaching emphasizes understanding the mathematics of success and aligning it with personal purpose.Insights into key strategies for business growth, including leveraging other people's audiences and simplifying marketing to the essential metrics.Key Quotes:"At the end of the day, it's about what you were built to do.""Know your math, know your purpose. If you get these two things down, your business will grow."Next Steps:Learn More: Visit the Growth Tools website to discover tools and workshops to transform your business approach.Reflect: Assess how well your current business strategies align with your strengths and purpose.Engage: Use # MickUnplugged to share how this discussion on business growth and personal alignment inspires changes in your approach.Connect & Discover:LinkedIn: linkedin/in/harrisbyrannashInstagram: instagram.com/bryan_harris_Facebook: facebook.com/growthtoolsbyranWebsite: growthtools.com        videofruit.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Are you ready to change your habits, sculpt your destiny, and light up your path to greatness?
Welcome to the epicenter of transformation.
This is Mic Unplugged.
We'll help you identify your because, so you can create a routine that's not just productive, but powerful.
You'll embrace the art of evolution, adapt strategies to stay ahead of the game,
and take a step toward the extraordinary. So let's unleash your potential. Now, here's Mick.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged,
where we dive deep into the stories and strategies behind today's most successful
individuals. Speaking of success, today I have a special guest who is dedicated to helping business leaders grow their businesses and
brands. His journey is a testament to perseverance, innovation, and passion. Get ready to be inspired
and enlightened as we explore the because behind one of the greatest leaders and founders that I
know. Please join me in welcoming the incomparable, the amazing, the founder of Growth Tools, Mr. Brian Harris. Brian, how are you doing,
brother? That's an extremely uncomfortable intro. I'm doing good. I'm looking forward to chatting
today and sharing the very comparable lessons I've learned over a couple of decades or so of
doing this. So looking forward to jumping in and helping your audience in any way I can.
I appreciate it, man. And that intro is totally you. So don't be uncomfortable, although
it's great to be uncomfortable. That's where growth happens. And speaking of growth, let's talk about
growth tools, man. Like what was the pivotal moment that sparked your passion for creating growth
tools? My first coach ever hired in business, his name is Stu McLaren. A lot of people know that
name and a really good dude. And before I hired him as a coach, this has been a decade ago.
I remember watching a launch,
like a Jeff Walker PLF style launch video series he created.
I think he was working at Michael Hyatt at the time.
I don't remember what the product was.
I don't remember when it was.
I just remember distinctly where I was
and how I internally reacted to what it was.
And he said, you know,
we all are getting into this entrepreneur thing
so we can work less and make more
and spend time with our family.
I remember thinking that that's actually not the reason I got into this at all.
Like those things are good, by the way, and make more and, you know, and spend more time with your family.
Like, hey, let's let's do those things.
But like, that's not I remember distinctly saying to myself in the moment, that's literally not why I'm into this, which generated a second question.
Well, why am I doing what I'm doing? And there is, I think for a
lot of us, this internal program inputted from us that came from outside of us that forces us,
inspires us, drives us, me at least, to make things. And that's the reason. At the end of the
day, the reason that I'm doing what I'm doing is I was built to make things and to help other people solve
problems. Like I just love doing that. I love coaching people. I love building products. I
love making software. It's just fun. It allows me to spend time with my family. It allows me time
to raise my boys and my one girl. It allows me the money to give and to spend and to do the things.
But like the driving force isn't to work less. The driving force is some average of
the things I just said is to help people to some degree. I don't know how much of a choice I have.
Like it's like a bird is going to fly because it was made to fly. Like if you ask it why it's
flying, it's just what it is. So that was the first pivotal moment that I can think of that
has been enlightening as I've gone over the last 11 or 12 years of doing
this at the end of the day, it doesn't matter where you put me, the human, it doesn't matter
where you put the different people listening to this, like you're going to go make things
and help people. So then the second question is what's that going to be?
Wow. You know, I'm, I'm inspired by that because you hit on something that's important to me. I
tell people all the time, especially young entrepreneurs and they're like, Nick, how do I get started? Or what's the secret? I'm like, first off, there is no secret. Anyone
that tells you that there's a secret or a blueprint, run the other way, because typically
there's not. But you have to love what you do and then master that thing. And so that's one of the
things I appreciate most about you is I can hear the passion. I've been a fan of yours, been a follower of yours for a very long time. You genuinely love what you do and you've mastered
the thing that you're great at. So I applaud you for that. There's a verse in the Bible in
Ecclesiastes chapter four that says there's nothing better than for a man to enjoy his work
and yet, amen, but then go to the opposite of that. And it's even more true. There's nothing
worse than to despise what you spend your days doing. But the problem is the opposite of that. And it's even more true. There's nothing worse than
to despise what you spend your days doing. But the problem is like, I didn't engineer me. Like
we have an engineer on staff and he makes stuff, he makes software. And our users experience that
software from the front end UI perspective. They're using our LMS system and doing the things.
They understand that people that have been around a while, like really get the software,
but nobody understands it like Chris. Chris actually built the thing. They understand that people that have been around a while, like really get the software, but nobody understands it. Like Chris, Chris actually built the thing. So he
understands the actual intricacies of it on a level that a user or the software itself never
get. So yes, loving what you do. We live in a society that's really bizarre. The more you think
about it, actually, like if you really stop to think about it, like at 18 years old, we send
our kids off and ask them the question, what do you want to be when you grow up?
And then we put them in the worst possible environment you could ever engineer for four years.
You leave home, go into debt.
You're in the most temptatious environment you could possibly draw up on paper.
And in that environment, you're supposed to discover who you are.
This is like absolutely absurd.
Like it's the dumbest thing we could possibly do.
But there are ways you can go about figuring out who you are, what you're able to do. And ultimately,
the most success and all the different ways to define that term, peace, impact, happiness,
prosperity, all those things is going to come from just being what you were made to be. A bird
will never be happy if it tries to act like an elephant. And I think the first 10 years of
Running Earth Tools, the thing we do is help people. We help make it almost impossible to fail for our clients to grow their business,
to get more customers. So I spent the first decade of the 11 or 12 years, 2013, when we started
helping people figure out the math side. Like how do you actually get random people on the internet
to know you exist and buy your thing, whether it's a book or a course or a coaching program
or a service or whatever it is. We happen to specialize like in high-end coaching and services
and clients that do that. But it's the same thing for everybody. And we
get really good at that. Like we know how that works. We know that inside and out and backwards
and forwards. But there's a second component to that. Like you think about like success or,
I don't know, your business doing whatever you want it to do is like a French door. It's not
just one door. It's not just the math of it. It's not just the funnel. You have to have that. Like
if that doesn't work, nothing else is going to work. But if the other door you have to walk through is like, what were you built to do?
If you were built to do another thing, no matter what the math is, you will not like it. You will
not enjoy it. I coach three different clients personally that are, you know, in the 20 to $50
million a year range that are names people know. And two of the three are doing exactly what they
were built to do. One of the three is not at all. And despite amazing success, happiness, joy, peace, none of that stuff is there. Like they've crushed the
numbers and buy all the things and hire all the people and fantastic. And like, man, at night,
the fear has overwhelmed them in decision-making because you're not doing what you were, but you're
trying to be a bird and you're a fish. Like, what are you doing? Like you need to like find your
thing and stay in that lane. So now we coach people on both things
because one of that, the other doesn't work all the peace and purpose in the world. But like,
you don't know how to run a business. You're screwed. If you know how to run a business,
but you're doing literally the wrong business, like that ain't going to work either. Like a lot
of people talk about product market fit. The thing that don't talk about is business founder fit.
Like, are you the person to actually do that? It's great that you heard me talking about a coaching business, but like, if you're built to be a software engineer and to solve
these sets of problems like that, this will never work for you. So now thinking about both of those
things for myself, because the flywheel of our business is we solve our own problems first.
We then codify the solutions. We give them to clients and their business grows as a result of
that. And we just spin that flywheel as fast as possible. And like, as we've gone over a decade, we keep finding more and more problems on our side
that we come up with good solutions for, discover past solutions that people have found and make our
version of them. And then we give them to our clients and they win. So the first 10 years was
figuring out how do you get customers? And like, we know how to do that. We know how to do that for
practically any business we've encountered. Like we know how that works. The last year,
year and a half has been all right, but what about that other door? Because some people are super successful, but they're not.
They have one or two areas of life, but the other 10 are just a disaster.
But what's that?
Why are they sabotaging themselves and their business?
So now, just holistically, we do both things.
And that's like, man, I have personally found more joy and purpose in that second door than the first door.
In the first door, I'm like a numbers geek, spreadsheets out the wazoo, love that side of things.
And that's fun. But without the other, like you violate
Solomon 101, you know, there's nothing better than for men to enjoy the work that he does.
And there's so many people, including myself at many times that I haven't enjoyed it because I'm
just doing the wrong thing. Yeah. You know, and here I'm going to give a shout out to one of my
accountability partners, Carl Lester Crumpler, who was also on the podcast. And one of the things that he asked and it got deep with me is,
you know, people define success in different ways and happiness in certain ways. But at the end of
the day, if what you're doing, shouldn't it really be more about joy and fulfillment? Like shouldn't
fulfillment matter more than anything else that you do? And so I love that you just put a nice
bow on that piece as well, too. Brian, you're amazing, brother. How do you define success for you? What does that look like?
For me, it has changed recently. So for me, success is about the legacy that I'm able to pass
with joy and fulfillment. So it's easy to pass monetary success, right? That's pretty easy to
do. You build a business, you can set your kids and your
kids' kids up for success. But if I'm not passing fulfillment down and explaining fulfillment to
anyone associated with me, then I'm not doing the purpose that I was put on earth to do by God. So
for me, it's about passing a legacy with joy and fulfillment. That's good. I have 20 follow-up
questions, but I love that.
That's so good. And give me the question, what's fulfillment? What does it mean to be fully filled?
Who does the filling and what are you filling with? Like, what's that? So fulfillment for me, it goes back to the old Testament, right? My cup runneth over. And so I'm fulfilled because it's
coming out. It's exuding out of me. So fulfillment for me means I've given everything and it's coming out. It's exuding out of me. So fulfillment for me means I've given everything
and it's coming out, it's showing out and it's there for others to grab. And for me,
that's fulfillment because a lot of times we're empty and we fill that emptiness with, with fake,
right? You know, we, we fill that emptiness with, with likes and subscriptions. We feel that emptiness with, oh, I've got this post.
Who watched it?
Who reshared that?
That's failing to me.
And so for me, I want to be able to have so much that's pouring outward that my cup run
over.
To me, that's fulfillment.
Well, I'll plug a thing real quick.
So this coming Friday, we do it almost every Friday.
And you can grab a link, growthtools.com slash Mick, M-I-C-K. We run a workshop and this is kind of uncomfortable,
new territory for me because like the crunchy, hacky, tactical funnel marketer side of me
is confused by what I'm saying here. And that's kind of new still. So I haven't like fully
absorbed it yet. So every Friday for clients, we host a workshop called clear the fear.
And the point of it is to identify what fear is overwhelming you so you can get rid of it.
And then identify what your God-given purpose and identity is so you can walk in it.
And most of the time that doesn't, sometimes it does, but most of the time that doesn't necessitate some radical change of vocation.
Because your purpose and identity can be wrapped in many different vocations.
So growthsouls.com slash mick, invite to that.
There'll be a link on the page
where you can, it's just a Zoom.
20, 30 of us get on and work to that.
So if you're interested
in like exploring further
what this means for you,
like how do you tomorrow
know who you are
and how does it affect
the sales call you're going to get on?
How does it affect the marketing
email you're getting right?
Because it does drastically.
You can track it with numbers.
We were in this room
about a month ago and we had the owner, the lead sales leader on
the team here.
And this is about a $3 million company.
They help salon owners and they help them grow their salons.
So cool, interesting business.
And we spent the first two hours in person running through the exercise we do every Friday
on Zoom, but in person and in person is way better.
But the end of it, that sales leader found their identity was to be the holder and bringer of safety.
I was like, what in the world does that even mean?
So we went through a series of exercise, prayed and listened and talked and discerned that in a group.
At the end of that, they're like, man, it isn't deeply resonating with me because I'm not that human.
Because it's not my identity.
It's her identity.
But at the end of it, we're processing.
Okay, so that's true.
That feels deeply true to you.
And I was like, okay, but what does that mean for your sales call tomorrow?
And what does it mean for your sales leadership of your sales team? Because like, if it doesn't
work on Monday, then what it is you heard on Sunday is like, I don't know how helpful that is.
I don't know if it's just a theological, mental, philosophical pursuit, or does this actually
change your life and impact in big ways on Monday morning? So she was processing through that in the
months since then her close rate has doubled because she realized like, first, I don't ever feel safe. That's what she said. I don't feel
safe. So first I have to receive the safety from somewhere. So before I get on a sales call, I'm
like, God, I don't feel safe right now. I feel scared. I feel fear. I feel shame and guilt. Like
I need you to bring me safety. So when I get on the call with John in a few minutes and we start
talking about his salon and blah, blah, blah, I can bring him safe because if he feels safe and secure and he's in a safe environment, he'll buy.
If this is a good fit, he'll buy. There won't be any fear holding him back or any of that stuff.
And she's crushed it since then. So like this stuff is super practical when you get into Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, when you start writing that funnel or coming up with that offer,
or you start coaching or whatever it is, the thing you do, man, it's been so fascinating to
walk my team through that, to be walked through it and get to the like on the grounds in the weeds impact of that on a Monday.
It's super cool to see.
So anyway, go earthworks.com slash make if you want to do that yourself.
It's free.
There's nothing to buy.
We just do that every Friday for anybody that wants to come.
So come check it out.
Going to do that.
Going to do that.
You know, I forgot we're doing a podcast.
Like this was literally just some great conversations that you and I are having.
And so I want the listeners to know about growth tools. I don't want to assume everyone knows about it, but I'm pretty sure most people that are listening do. But walk us through why growth tools? What was your thought process in creating it? And what is it doing for businesses and people out there in the world? So the problem we solve as a company is we
make it almost impossible for our clients to fail at getting customers. There's two parts of that.
First, know who you are. Don't make dumb decisions because you're inferior all the time. Second part,
have a sales channel that actually works and puts customers into your program, whatever your
program is, whether it's a book or a course or coaching or consulting or agency or whatever
your thing is. And we take a very simple math-based approach to that. So all customers are
generated from one of two numbers, actually two numbers. The number of, if you're running like,
if you sell via a sales page, it's going to be visits. If you sell via the phone, it's going to
be calls on your calendar. So we'll take a phone sales type approach. Like you're selling something
that costs $5,000 or more, or they paid two grand a month, or you have an agency offering or
something, but it's the same thing for a asynchronous type product, a course or membership
or something. There's only two numbers that matter. The number of calls in your calendar
and your close rate. So if you put 10 calls on a calendar a week and you have a 10% close rate,
that produces one customer every time. Those numbers work. Math is math. What we do is take
a math-based approach. First, we look at each client and say, okay, based on where you're at,
what's the first channel we're going to install with you in order to produce the revenue that
you actually need?
For many clients, if you're sub $3 million a year, like most of the people we work with are, you're sub $1 million a year, which the majority of people we work with are.
You've been getting clients from a hodgepodge of things, word of mouth, referrals.
You've done like random acts of marketing.
You have the RAM marketing plan.
You just kind of do a bunch of stuff you see and sometimes stuff works.
You don't quite know how it actually works together.
And if you want it to like just turn a dial up on a thing,
so disparate and disconnected,
you don't know actually what to turn up.
So we come in and just bring order to the chaos.
And rule number one is you have to have one marketing channel producing at least $50,000 a month
before you add a second marketing channel.
So for most clients,
the very first foundational marketing channel we install
is called Bopa, borrowing other people's audiences. Instead of trying to build an audience,
instead of trying to run ads, instead of trying to SEO or YouTube SEO or whatever your thing is,
all that stuff works. It's fantastic. Also, there's a million places for it to fail.
It is way easier to screw it up than to do it right. And if you're just starting out,
you don't have the privilege of going months and months and months
or years and years and years
and not having consistent, predictable revenue.
So our goal is consistent, predictable sales channels
that actually put customers in your programs.
So the first one we do for most people is Bopa.
And what that means is,
instead of you having a big audience
that you've grown via all this content stuff you're doing,
you're only content hamster wheel to death.
We're doing it right now, by the way,
make you have a faithful audience who's followed you for a long time. Most of them have
never heard of Brown Harris before, but right now we're, you know, 20 minutes into talking.
And a lot of them know, know me decently well now, because the first stuff we talked about
was pretty vulnerable things. It wasn't like tactical numbers stuff. And it's like, they know
me a lot better now than before. So several hundred people, as a result of listening to this podcast,
we'll go to real schools.com slash Mick and sign up for that workshop or get the free
Bopa training, a little video of them and put on there the free cheat sheet or whatever stuff we
talk about on this. They're going to get it. We have a couple hundred people that join our newsletter
as a result of that. And a couple of those people will book a call with us. And one or two of them
will probably hire us to coach them. Instead of me having to produce content to attract people to me,
you just go to an established audience and share.
Podcasts are a great way to do it.
One of our favorite mechanisms to do this
is something called a lead magnet swap or a resource swap
where you have a really good resource.
Like we have this Friday workshop we do.
We have a little 10 minute Boba training
that'll go way deeper than we're gonna do in the podcast.
We can go check it out
and see examples of this working in real time.
Like just go get that.
So if you have a resource, Mick,
that would work well for our audience,
we'll just email it out to the audience
and you'll get several hundred people
that found out about you,
that didn't know about you before.
And some of those people will hire you.
Same thing for us.
You share a resource with your audience from us,
they found out about us and hire us.
We have found it's way easier to go to a,
like a barrel that's full of fish and fish,
as opposed to go to an empty barrel
and try to tell all the fish about us
so they'll jump in it.
So borrowing other people's audiences is the simplest marketing channel. We've done over
a million dollars a year for 10 years straight with this sales channel. And it is like, my only
goal isn't to like, I'm not an evangelist for any sales channel. I actually don't care about any of
them. My goal is like, what's the thing that's just simple and really hard to screw up? Let's
do that first and get to the really complicated, like running ads and tons of content that's going to get visitors that maybe they'll subscribe and
maybe they'll buy. All that stuff's just way harder to do and way easier to screw up.
So my goal for every client is to make it really hard to screw up. And the simplest marketing
channel that I have found after a decade is borrow the people's audiences. Do lead magnet swaps,
go on podcasts, teach workshops that attracts eyeballs. That builds trust. You can have three
things for people to buy from me. You could have eyes, hearts, and then you can get wallets.
You got to attract their eyeballs. They're going to know you exist. And then once they're there,
you need to build trust with them because if they just know you exist, but don't trust you,
think of them sleazy weirdo, like they're not going to buy from you. So you get your eyes,
you get the hearts, and then you get the wallets the great thing with barring other
people's audiences mick you already have the relationship with your audience by you having
me here or doing a lead magnet swap or hosting a workshop or something that trust is immediately
transferred to me here's an example of this that most everybody knows so oprah back in the day when
she had her daytime show dr phil and ro Robert Kiyosaki were totally unknown humans.
No one knew these people existed. After one guest appearance on Oprah's show, Robert Kiyosaki's book,
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, went from like no copy sold to one of the best-selling books of all time.
And he directly attributes it and tracks that success to one guest appearance where millions
of eyeballs were there. Immediate trust is transferred. And all he had to do is make a simple offer and people bought.
Same thing with Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil got his start by going on Oprah.
And now he has one of the longest running daytime TV shows in like television history
as a result of borrowing Oprah's audience.
So that's the basic concept at a high level.
What we do is make it almost impossible for people to fail.
What I found to be one of the simplest tools to do that is burn other people's audiences.
It just works well.
And you can grow it to many millions of dollars a year without having to touch another sales
channel at all.
That's amazing.
Brian, you've dropped so many words of wisdom from your personal to the business side.
What's two things that you want to leave the listeners in the audience with today?
Whether it's about Brian directly, whether it's about grow tools, what are the floor
is yours? What's two things you want to leave the world? Know your math, know your purpose.
If you get those two things down, the business will grow. It's impossible for it not to grow.
If those two things are in. So when I say math, literally what's the revenue you need to be
profitable? Like what's your goal and back the math out. There's only two numbers. So if you need $10,000 a month, great. What's your price of your thing? It's $5,000. Cool. All you need to sell us two
units. Two. Can you sell two a month? How many calls do you need on a calendar? And what's your
close rate? Close rate is going to be about 10%. That means you need 20 calls. So just know your
math. You need 20 calls on a calendar, 10% close rate. You get to two people, you need to make 10
grand a month. That is the math of that. So then the question is, how am I going to put calls on the calendar, 10% close rate. You get to two people, you need to make 10 grand a month. That is the math of that. So then the question is, how am I going to put calls on the calendar?
Use both of them. Go to growthhills.com slash make. There's a cheat sheet and a video. Just
go do it. Just go track that. If you want us to help, let us know because you can do it yourself.
So know your math. Literally, what's your math? Too many people live in the mystery box,
not the math box. It's like the mystery is like, I need more money. I got an idea of what I want
to do, but they're like searching around. They don't like, haven't made it concrete. And you can do this math in five seconds. What's
your revenue goal? What's your price point? That's how many you divide the two. And that's how many
units you need to sell. Now, all you need is a mechanism to put those calls in your calendar.
Use Bopa to do that. It works. It's really tough to screw up. The second thing is know your purpose,
literally what you were you built to do. And Hey, you can't read a label from inside the jar.
You're inside the jar. You are you only
external factors. God is a huge component of that can tell you who you are. So spend time with that.
Come to our free workshop on Fridays and find that out, like find it out or do it yourself or speak
to whoever. I don't care how you do it, but like, no, specifically not like some vague 17 page paper
of who you are, like, but no, you have a unique identity. Like here's the interesting thing from
Bible is that you brought it up earlier, early old testament almost every major character in the bible their
story starts by god telling them who they are and a lot of times he renames them to reinforce it so
abraham was originally called abram and before his story starts god tells him his identity he's like
hey man you're not abram you're abraham you're the father of many nations and that is his identity
everything he did flow through that.
He told David who he was.
He told Jesus.
Jesus' story starts with literally John the Baptist baptizing him and God from heaven in a voice saying, this is my son, whom I'm well pleased.
Told him his identity, John the Baptist.
So almost every major character, Gideon's a cool one.
You're a mighty warrior.
And Gideon's like, no, I'm not.
What are you talking about?
Like almost every time you hear it, you argue with it, feel embarrassed by it, but like you deeply know it's true. And as you start
walking on that at work. So two things I'd leave you with, know your math of your business and know
your purpose. So you don't do dumb stuff because the dumb stuff will kill the math, but the math
won't fix the purpose. So if you get both of those things down, like it will grow. Your thing will
succeed, whether it's ministry or business or nonprofit or a family or whatever that is.
Know your math, know your purpose, and you can't go wrong with those two things.
I love simplicity, man.
I tell people all the time, especially in sports, like I'm a football nut.
At the end of the day, football is just blocking and tackling.
That's literally it, right?
Like all the other stuff is for show.
And I love how you just brought that into the business and personal life too, man.
Know your math. At the end of the day, that's what it's about for a business, right?
Like how do I make a dollar? How do I keep a dollar? How do I grow a dollar? That's literally
it, right? And in your personal life, you hit it on the head, man. Like what's your purpose?
You know, my mentor, Les Brown says, who are you? And if you don't know who you are,
how can you expect anyone else to know either? I'm going to give an example of this because like
all of my tactical,
but what does this mean?
And why should I care?
Because almost no specifically dudes,
we actually suck at this 10 times worse
than the females in my life.
At least they're like halfway in tune.
We're freaking clueless.
I can like none of this stuff matters all the time.
The number of dudes I've ever had a conversation
with like this is very small.
So for me, even like preparing for this podcast,
the identity that I've heard God say
is me and has been reinforced and discerned in a group of guys that know me well. I always feel
weird saying this out loud, but the more times I say it, the more or less weird it sounds.
What I've been told I am is a glory infuser. So here's how practical it plays out. When I
entered this podcast, I'm like, all right, a lot of things I can talk about, a lot of things I'm
excited about, but like, what would it look like, God, for me to be a glory infuser on this podcast right now?
And that's a question that becomes the single most orienting question.
What does it look like when I get home?
My nine-year-old's done something stupid today.
Didn't finish the task I gave him today.
It's like, okay, I could go off the rails like my dad would do.
I go to hyper-disciplinarian mode, like it's kind of built into me.
Or what would it look like to train him and guide him and also correct him as a glory
infuser?
Because that's very different than probably what the built-in like nature wants to actually do.
It is the most orienting question of every day.
And when I work outside of that and try to be a thing I'm not,
I'm trying to mimic my dad or mimic a friend or do something that Alex Ramosi
or whoever you're following is doing, you always do dumb stuff.
A hundred percent of the time.
Like what would it look like to be a football coach that is working fully in their identity,
not mimicking whoever your football coach idol is or your mentor was, but like being
you in that scenario. And that's where magic and innovation happens every time without fail.
But man, the number of people that actually do that is so low. It's absolutely shocking.
So man, knowing what you are, getting that down to a word or two and using that as your
orienting point and working inside of a business or inside of whatever your job is like, man, knowing what you are, getting that down to a word or two and using that as your orienting point and working inside of a business or inside of whatever your job is like, man, that's the joy set before them right there.
That is fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, I told you, be prepared to be inspired.
Brian is an amazing human being and growth tools is awesome, but it's awesome because they have an awesome leader.
So, Brian, I appreciate you being here.
And more importantly, I appreciate who you are. I mean that from my heart. Thank you so much, Mick.
And for all the listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.
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