Mick Unplugged - Discovering Your Compass Within with Robert Glazer

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Robert Glazer is a world-renowned CEO, bestselling author, and performance culture architect known for building multimillion-dollar companies without compromising values. As the creator of the viral Friday Forward series and an expert in leadership, Robert has helped millions elevate their mindset and develop disciplined, high-impact teams. His work centers on operationalizing genuine core values within organizations and empowering individuals to lead authentically, with clarity and purpose. In addition to his latest book "The Compass Within," he’s influenced leaders and entrepreneurs to embrace growth, integrity, and actionable change in every aspect of their lives and businesses. Takeaways: Core values are only meaningful when they guide real behaviors and decisions—not just words on a wall or clever acronyms. True leadership operationalizes these values at every level of the organization. Personal and company values should be intrinsic, not aspirational. Leaders who understand and live by their authentic values make stronger decisions, inspire trust, and build happier, more resilient teams. Burnout comes from misalignment, not just overwork. High performers avoid burnout by aligning their daily activities and choices with their personal core values, focusing on the journey rather than just the destination.  Sound Bites: “The behaviors you reward are ultimately the core values and the culture.” – Robert Glazer “You are going to lead from your core values whether you realize it or not.” – Robert Glazer “Hustle without strategy is just burnout.” – Mick Hunt Connect & Discover Robert: Website: https://robertglazer.com/ Podcast: The Elevate Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertglazer_/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glazer/ Book: The Compass Within The Six  Core Values Question page: https://robertglazer.com/six/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobertSGlazer 🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥   Mick Hunt’s best selling book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers.   👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million    FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged  Facebook: @mickunplugged YouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast  LinkedIn: @mickhunt  Website:  MickHuntOfficial.com Apple: MickUnplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Did I just figure out your business's core values? In this episode, I'm sitting down with the world-renowned Robert Glazier, and we're going to go through how you should actually be defining the core values, not only for your business, but for you personally. We're going to take a stroll into his upcoming book, and we're going to unleash the things that you. you as a leader can and should be doing so that your team is following the right path for you. Ladies and gentlemen, I present my good friend, Mr. Robert Blazier.

Robert, how are you doing today, brother? Thank you, Mick. I heard all sorts of new things about myself there. I didn't realize. So I like that. No, it is all true. It is all true, man. You know, you are someone who I have admired from afar.

We've gotten to really know each other personally lately, and I can't thank you enough for just who you are because you actually push me to be a better leader for my team and a better leader for my community. So, bro, I just wanted to say thank you face to face eye to eye. Honestly, that means a lot coming from you and given what you do. So I appreciate that maybe we can talk about how to bring that magic to everyone who's listening. Oh, let's do that. And I want to start with just that. What is what's your purpose, your mission behind why you do what you do and the lives that you touch and the companies that you change? And I call it your because, that thing that's deeper than your why.

What's your purpose? What's your mission? Robert, what's your because, brother? Yeah. So I, by look at my time, I spend 99% of my time trying to find better ways and share it. And I really, it ties to value. I've identified a few years ago that what sort of lights me up. the most is sharing ideas that help people and organizations grow.

I love it. I love it so much. And now let's shake the room a little bit. Let's shake the viewers and listeners. You're the guy I go to, especially when I talk about all things culture. And we can't talk culture without talking about core values. I'm pausing because companies are getting it wrong. Right.

Their core values are just words that are on a way. wall and they usually stay on a wall talk to us about what core values truly mean and one how can companies really tie into developing real core value not just words on it yeah so i think you and i share a similar viewpoint and when i was going to write a book on core values and the reason why i ended up doing the parables i just felt like a lot of people would tune out when they hear it because we see the same companies and the same wall art and i didn't believe in any of this stuff years ago and And then I saw some truly extraordinary companies and cultures. And, you know, their core values didn't sound like respect and integrity and team.

And they weren't just on the wall. They were completely operationalized in the business. They were what the leaders talk about. They were what they rewarded. And I realized that, yeah, it really is the ultimate sort of foundation of culture. But if I had the guess, I'd say I'd see it in like one or two percent of companies. So it's not surprising. So I mean, I have a personal definition of personal core values,

and I'll kind of switch it back. I think core values are the non-negotiable principles that guide your behaviors and decisions. So in an organization, they need to guide your employees' behaviors and decisions. For an individual, I think they're intrinsic, not aspirational. They reflect who you are, not who you wish you were. In fact, when you figure them out, you kind of look back and you see I've always been that way. They're consistent across all aspects of life and work, relationship, personal decisions,

and they're clarifying. They help you make better choices about who to spend time with, what work to do, where to live. You know, we talked about kind of the big three in the book. So that's for individuals. For companies, every company, and I think you and I share this, they have core values. They just may not be the things on the wall. We're training a puppy, right?

And we have, you know, good girl and bad girl. And sort of all that, that's what happens. It's the behaviors that you reward are ultimately the core values and the culture. And so sometimes those match what's on the wall. Most times they don't, but they kind of exist because if you start asking people, all right, what's the type of behavior around here that gets rewarded or doesn't? You'll very quickly get answered. And that's why it was pretty funny when Enron was going out of business pretty much.

You know, they had integrity and respect and those things when really the core value was probably like act, don't ask, and, uh, you know, be incredibly aggressive. You know, that's actually what got you a bonus, uh, or got you a promotion at Enron. So for the viewer listener right now that's like, oh, Robert, that makes a ton of sense. I'm looking at my wall right now and I see integrity and trust and teamwork. How do they take integrity, trust and teamwork and turn those into actionable core value. So when I've done sort of consulting work with organizations on this, we end up talking to their employees and we ask them a lot of behavioral-based questions to try to understand

what are the behaviors that you value most in your peers. And then we look at the core values and we say which one of these rings true to you and which one doesn't. And we're trying to solve the say-do gap. So there's some stuff that the company's saying that it's not doing. But then it's interesting. Employees can always identify a couple things that like they really love or they value in their peers or that's kind of a prize behavior that that's not being said. And so we can align those things and we can kind of update the values and we can move away from one word and we can run them through the rubric of it's got to be action oriented and decision and it's got to be something you would say to someone, you're doing a good job at this and you're not. But at the end of

the day, if leadership isn't bought into that and doesn't hold that accountable from the top, you know, it's really not going to matter. My favorite email I got this year was from a hospital system that we had worked with to refine their core values. And someone who came into that from a different group that I had helped him before. And it was funny because we have these values. And, you know, they always love their acronyms. And I won't tip off here. But there was a guy I really wanted heart as one of them. And I'm like, can you tell me one of the things under heart? Can you remember what it is or tell me how it's, you know, rewarded?

So we spent a lot of time looking at, you know, particularly in a teaching hospital, you know, and it was, it was like, elevate yourself with others. Like that was like a core thing that needed to be in a teaching hospital that they wanted to do it. So my favorite email I got was I said, how's it going? You know, it's been four months since we did this whole thing and rolled it out and they said, look, it's going great. Here's what it's going on. We just instituted behavioral-based interview questions that align to our core values. We actually have this newsletter where we're doing core value shoutouts. We got the HR team to incorporate these core values into the performance reviews and the conversations.

We have the first core value awards coming up next quarter. And so this is to me someone who's actually taking it seriously, look, we're going to live by these and these are going to be the things that people are judged by. I love that, man. That truly does make it actionable, right? If we're going to have awards, if it's a part of performance, if it's a part of everyday dialogue, then that truly is who you are. I've always wanted to ask you this question, and I'm going to ask it for the audience, but I'm asking it for a couple of my friends in particular. How many core values slash pillars are too many? Because like you, I think we like these acronyms, right?

Like happiness. Well, to me, that's far too many core values or pillars that you need to have, right? Well, you'll see some corporations. I remember a fancy hotel chain years ago and they were kind of an exemplar for their values. And the guy pulled out the card. And, you know, there was a thing. And it was service. And he read the thing.

I'm like, if you need a card, you're kind of already losing. Like in our company, everyone knew own it, embrace relationships in Excel and Improve. If you were there for more than 30 days because they were, you heard it all the time. time. And look, I have, so we had three in our company. I have five personally. I think three to four is that sweet spot, but even my personal values, right? Find a better way and share it. Health and vitality, self-reliance, respectful authenticity, and long-term orientation. I remember them. And it's important to remember them because when someone brings something in front of me, that's my, that's my litmus test. So I like three to four. I'm sure you've seen in business like goals and stuff. There's

something magical about three um but four four's four's not a bad sweet spot yeah i'm a four guy right to me four makes sense with what i do but i don't do any more than four i tell again i'm not going to mention one of my really good friends names but he's all about having 10 to 15 so that it can spell a word and i'm like dude company or personal per or company yeah like at that point you've you've you've lost the honestly anytime you hear an acronym with the core value ask see if people can get more than one of the things in the underlying they always remember the acronym i was in this hospital and and i won't again i won't give it away they they had the badge with the acronym on it that they all wore every day with them on the back and when i asked people

to tell me what they were in the meeting i couldn't get anyone who could like recite the mall off because it was on the badge but no one ever mentioned them or if it was on your performance review yesterday if someone had a shout out for you or a nominee like that you're going to know what it is right i mean that's the difference yeah and another one of the things that and just so everybody listening and watching i understand robert and i are here to help today we're going to we're going to break some old truth and redefine we'll get we'll get into the one words too yeah that'll be right right robert you know this about me i'm not a believer in mission and vision statements. I'm a believer in because

statements. Yeah. Because I feel like, again, if you and your team and your clients don't understand your mission and vision, then you really just had a marketing company come do something that sounds cool. Like, our vision

is to be the number one trusted fill in the blank in our space. Our mission is to fulfill our community with fill in the blank. Everybody sees that. Everybody hears that, but no one, really understands it that works with you, that works for you. My personal feelings, though, Robert, I'd love to get your take on the traditional

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Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk, business. Well, first of all, if you ask company, most people get them backwards. They think the visions, I mean, in theory, one's supposed to be kind of a 10-year view and one's supposed to be kind of a three-year view. Like one would last forever. I similarly like the why, which is a version of the because, like we looked around our team like, Okay, screw all the, like, why do we get up every day? And we were like, because we think we can make things better, right?

We think we can make our clients, businesses better, and the community better, our employees better, and just, you know, a much more direct thing. I don't, I don't hate, like most things, I don't hate them if they're actually well done. But, but again, they're usually marketing that people never see again. And if you can't recall it. And if someone can't, if you're not using that day to day, then it doesn't. have a lot of teeth. So the problem is that as we talk about this is the majority of the examples are the

performative ones, not the people actually doing it well. Another thing I love about you is we share some similar thoughts here. I want the audience to hear the thoughts from Robert Bezier himself. I believe that we've become addicted to hustle in the hustle culture. And I have this saying, hustle without strategy is just burnout. Yeah. How do you help people balance high performance from burnout? Yeah, I have very similar views on this to you.

I think this is where the notion of personal core values. And look, they are distinct but related to company core values. Companies have things that they value. The book I wrote is about understanding your personal value. So you can see which of these situations to attach or to detail. attach. And I think burnout comes from when you're doing stuff that really doesn't align with your value. It's not the amount of time because there's stuff that you and I could do that we would do it for eight hours and for free and we're in a zone and it feels great and it's energizing. And that's

usually kind of value aligned. I think the other thing that high achievers really struggle with is just making everything about a destination. And then unfortunately, the destination doesn't provide the view that that one thought would make up for all the journey. And instead of sitting and contemplating on that, what do high achievers then do? They think, oh, I just have to pick a new destination that's higher. And that will make it all worth it. And I kind of think like the anecdote to that is to focus on what are you doing? Like, focus on the climb, like not the destination. And doing the climb, it doesn't mean that it's easy, but but things. about, you know, just, just what work and what thing that you could do that would feel really

good. That doesn't mean it's fun every day. You and I are both launching books. It is, as much as I love this book, it is like the hardest, most exhausting thing I've ever done. So, but, but I'm willing to push through because I, you know, I, I believe, I believe in the topic. So yeah, I think, I think that's where a lot of people, they're getting kind of bullied into a climb or a summit that that doesn't, isn't something that they really want to be doing agree completely and you just opened the door for me to talk about you you're my friend so this is a little hard in a good way yeah you are also one of the best authors that i know um you got to read more book then you know i i read a lot i read a lot i read a lot i read a lot And here's why.

Because every book that you've written from elevate to elevate your team, and I'll list them all in the show notes and descriptions with links. Because if you're a leader, you need these books. If you're a manager, you need these books. If you're an entrepreneur, you need these books. If you're a significant other, if you're a parent, if you're a community leader, you need these books. But what I appreciate is that you give clear roadmaps. You're not just writing from thought. You're literally writing as if you are helping the person that's on the other side of that book.

And so I wanted to give you kudos for that because you have genuinely, I mean, I said it in the opening. You've genuinely changed me as a leader, me as a community leader, because I can put the principles of the things that you talk in action or the things that you write in action. I want to start with elevate before we go to the new one. So we've got elevate and then there is an interesting line of how that leads to this. So that's that that's that's interesting. Yeah. So elevate and then elevate your team. Walk me through or walk the listeners and viewers through why you decided to write the book,

elevate obviously. Because there has to be a purpose to do it. You just don't wake up and say, yeah, I'm going to write a book. Because, you know, I tend to be pretty direct. I wrote the book Elevate because the book I wanted to write got rejected by everyone, which is actually a learning. So I had this Friday Ford newsletter, which you mentioned before. And I had, you know, all these people who love these stories.

And I was like, I'm going to write a synopsis. I'm going to take the 52 back stories once a week. And I'm going to write, I'm going to pull them out. I'm going to create a book. And so I pitched it to a lot of agents and everyone's like, look, publishers don't like compilation books. And then one agent said to me, look, I love your writing. I love these stories. Publishers don't like compilation books.

However, I think there's like something deeper in here. Like what is the story behind the stories? I would encourage you to think that. And so I spent 18 months kind of writing and going through it. being, okay, I've been writing these stories. They've been resonating. Why am I doing it? What is it? And that whole soul searching came up with, this is about building capacity. And if I look at all of these stories, they fall across one of these four dimensions of building capacity, spiritual, intellectual, intellectual, physical, and emotional. And that became the framework for the book. And then rather

than going and grabbing the individual stories, I actually did publish that book later on. But I went and took the thematic things and organized it around that principle. So elevate was how to build your personal capacity because I think a lot of growth these days is kind of steroid, artificial growth. We grow from growing from within, not because we're dragged into a growth situation. And how do you start with the spiritual piece, which is, again, your values and what you're good at. And that led me to the problem of everyone saying, hey, I'm with you on this core values thing.

And how do I do it? And I'm like, well, don't have an easy thing to send you. Intellectual capacity, which is how you learn, plan, execute, get better, physical capacity, which is your mental and physical wellness, and emotional, which is how you relate to people and the locus of control and all the things kind of outside of you. So in Elevate, it was about how you apply it to yourself. And then in Elevate your team, it was the same framework. But how do you apply this as a leader in an organization?

How do you build a team that builds capacity? Okay. And you said, and now that I understand the purpose behind it, the compass within ties it together for me. So new book, the thing I got asked the most about Elevate was like, I, I'm in on your, I need to understand my values. And at that point, I had just figured it out for myself. Yeah. And I was starting to train our team on it. and I had built a program.

And I was like, look, I can send you some resources, but they're not good. I spent three months going all through them. I'm teaching it to my team, but it's not super easy. I don't have a quick fix because it just wasn't out there for me. And so I went and kind of built it. And so what happened was eventually I turned it into a course, that curriculum into course because I was like, this is really working. We're using it in leadership training.

People are figuring out what they value. They're getting comfortable leading from that authentically. I love the outcome this is getting. I'll turn into a course. I shared it with a lot of people, thousands of people have taken that course. They sent me notes from all around the world. Like I quit my job.

I did this, like, awesome stuff. And I was like, I need to get this to more people because too many people won't jump into a course. And I was like, I want to write a book. But I had this vision, Mick.

Like I tell the story of literally like being in Barnes and Nobles. And my book called On Values, you know, and walking by it and no one wanting to pick it up being like, I'm going to pick a book on value. I just was like, it's going to be, I have this framework. I really believe it's different. I just, it's going to be boring to read as a nonfiction book. And, and, you know, things happen in life, like getting rejected from the Friday Forward book. And, you know, my daughter was joking me one the day. I pushed my kids a lot to do things outside of her comfort zone. She's like, you're Mr.

nonfiction. You read nonfiction. You write nonfiction. You should write a fiction book. That would be hard for you. And I was also finishing one of Patrick Lincione's books, who I love. And I was like, huh? I was like, I actually think this would work well if I could show it in a parable format. And I have no idea how to do that, but I'm willing to give it a try. And that's basically how the book was born. By Air Transact, Seven Time winners, champions out again. By the seven-time world's best leisure airline champions, Air Transat. Maybe it's just a phase you're going through. You'll get over it.

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Wow. And speaking of Patrick Lincione, he gave you a great endorsement on the compass with you, right? Saying that, you know, I'm going to read it so that I don't mess it up because it's Patrick. But it's a timeless parable that illuminates the power of. of living and leading in alignment with your core value. That's powerful when Patrick Lincione says that about your book. Like when you, when you saw or when he reached out or when you reached out and he wanted to do an endorsement for you. How did that make you feel?

Well, look, both Bob Berg, who wrote The Goal Giver, who I knew, Patrick, I kind of sent them draft. And I was like, I felt a little like, you know, a finger painter sending something. something to Picasso. I was like, so, you know, what, what do you guys think of this? And they were both like, we really like it. And, and I asked Pat about the title. He's like, I'm very good at titles. He's like, the compass with it. You know, he, he, and some options. So I, and, and it gave me the confidence, I think. And, and I had to convince a publisher that, you know, I could, they don't love parables. But what's so interesting to me, Jamie is the protagonist in the story. And you, you, you, you watch him go through struggling with what I call the big three, his community, his

vocation, and, you know, his partner. And the people have read the book in the early book, they all say to me, like, oh, I saw him. I had, like, they just see themselves in James. They remember that conversation with their boss, that thing in their town. He just kind of serves as a mirror. And I think, you know, as I have discussions with people like you about this. It proves that like because people start with and they might have started listening to this episode. They're like, oh, core values. This is so abstract and whatever. And then we get down into like the nitty gritty of what does it look like and actionable in these decisions and they see it in the book. And they're like, oh, I buy this. Like this is, this is different. So

look, we'll find out in a few weeks, but it, I think it's working. It seems to be resonating. I've gotten some really personal notes from people, you know, where I think it just reflected something in their own life for them yeah i dig it let's give the audience the viewers and listeners just a couple of parables that that you have in here as it relates to those values yeah you mean a couple of the stories you know from yeah um yeah so so so jimi is uh a young up-and-coming uh 20-year-old he's engaged and his boss who he loves um leave leaves his work, which gives him some opportunity, but also exposes him to the company and the culture in a way that he has it before. And so he's, he has this opportunity, but he also has

some things that feel a little bit off. At the same time, he and his wife are, his fiancee, are sort of getting married. They're trying to figure out where to live. They move to this young up-and-coming town that they thought would be perfect, but there's some fissures in the culture of the town they identify and he's he's really um kind of struggling with with all these things and it won't give away too much but he he connects with a mentor basically and and the framework that i had built all these years on how to discover your core values and that framework is given to you in the last chapter of the book but you watch the mentor and jamie go through it live um and and sort of how that comes out and the stories and and look my experience having done this work now with thousands of

people is like, you know, you and I have talked about this a little bit. I've had some like emotional conversations with podcast hosts as part of this where they're deep stuff. It's, it's usually some childhood thing where we are running, you know, away from something that was a little painful for us. Or we are trying to double down on something that was really important for us. And for a lot of people, it's a little bit like, you know, when your core values are crossed, it's kind of like the electric fence. But the goal is to not get electrocuted to know that you're the electric fence. It's to know that like I got to stay away from that fence and I got to kind of stay in this lane. I think most of us, we know our values by feel, but if we could articulate them, if we could

say like, I am a person that needs to find a better way and share it, and I will be much smarter about not taking a job where it's clear that I'm going to have to do the same thing every day and know that, you know, I'm going to be miserable or, you know, that I'm going to be miserable or, you know, that I'm going to, I'm going to, I have a core value that's self-reliance and I'm going to marry someone who has a trust fund and their family is going to tell us how we are going to live our, like that to me is like I'm, I talk about anti-core values and we can play with this, Mick, that when you say the opposite, like I can see it visceral. Like I get uncomfortable when I say that because it goes so against my sort of values of kind of self-reliance. I would never want

to be dependent on someone and have them telling me what I could do and what I could do. didn't do. I love that dude. I love that. For the viewer listener that is a leader, what are they going to get out of the compass with me? Yeah. So here's the thing. I think a lot of people think this concept is abstract. But let's say whether you're a leader of a team or even a CEO. Let me kind of talk about what's each. One, as a leader of team, you are going to lead from your core values, whether you realize it or not. Having done this work with thousands of people over 10 years, they're either driving the car or these things are driving for them, and it's a huge difference in how they show up as a leader. But some interesting stats, so almost half the

employees in the U.S. and the UK say they're considering leaving their company because it doesn't exemplify their personal values. So that's pretty interesting. It's really important to them to connect their values to their work. Gallup said that employees who perceive a strong alignment between their values and their organization are 56% more engaged. And another study found that leaders who talk about their core values and live by them, that's a big and, or it's probably the opposite, are trusted three times more. And people who live in congruence with their values are about 35% happier, which is equivalent

to some drugs. So if you want people on your team who are more connected to your company, who feel more confident in their decision, because really, and what the book is about the big three, it's really about decision. We all have to make a lot of decisions, right? And I don't, I don't know that most of them are empirically like stealing or not stealing. They're not right or wrong. There are things that we have to decide on whether we're going to live with them or not and how we feel with them a day later, a week later, or a year later. And those people were able to identify their values and make decisions with them. I just, I think the outcomes for them and their organizations are a lot better.

Robert, I could sit here and talk to you all day. Know that, right? I got a few hours. So if you had to give just one framework or a daily practice to someone trying to lead better every day. So to me, it's a lot about focus. I like to kind of commit to, first of all, I think if you can understand your values that all builds from this. That's the spiritual capacity foundation.

I like the simple kind of commit to three. Like every morning, like what are the three things I can do today by noon that are the most important things that I can do? And I'm a big alignment guy. So if those three things tie to my quarterly goals, and I do that for 90 days, you know, then I've knocked off 270 things. It's like dominoes. I've knocked over 270 things towards my quarterly goal.

That domino falls. Then the second domino fall, quarter domino falls. And then I should hit my annual goal. So a lot of people talk about how they don't have enough time. I think that's just a huge lie. There's so many people that I could look at and say, they want to write a book. I was like, you could have had the first draft of your book if the 10 minutes you spent commenting on people's food on Facebook every day was spent towards words. I can do the math for you.

So it's those small, the people who seem to get more done apply like the dominoes like they apply the time in the same direction towards those things every day. That 10 minutes in one direction starts knocking over the dominoes versus 10 minutes in a million different ways, then you're like, I don't even know where all the time went at the end of the week or the end of the fourth. Absolutely. Robert, I know you've been gracious with your time. I know how busy you are.

I got to get you out of here with my quick five, my top five rapid fire. All right. Ready? I'm ready. All right. What's one book that's changed your life? Mistakes were made, but not by me, which is the definitive book. First of all, great title on cognitive dissonance.

I have to say after really understanding cognitive dissonance, particularly in decision-making, I just see it everywhere. And the author's doing an amazing job of how do we stop ourselves from making mistakes because our ego is super powerful. So I love that book and I love the title. It's very catchy. Okay. What's your favorite morning routine?

I like to go, we read it our best. backyard a couple years ago. And on perfect day, I would sit outside there. I'd have my journal. I kind of have some moments of quiet. I'd figure out the top three before I opened anything electronic or connected myself to the outside world in any way. I think just starting your day on offense is a huge difference than rolling out of bed and getting emails and looking at the news about all the horrible things that happened in the world overnight. Yep, I totally agree. Totally agree. So you're out in the backyard. What's the beverage you're having out in the backyard? Coffee. Love coffee. I just enjoy drinking coffee. So I'll have like two cups of

regular and then like three cups at the Gaff. I already knew that in. You have an amazing podcast as well. Who's a dream podcast guest for you? You know, I love Tim Ferriss early on. and watching his evolution. And so I would, I would, I would, having listened to so many of his long form podcasts early on and just some really formative stuff, that would be a treat for me to be able to be on the opposite side of that chair and ask him some questions. Okay. All right. I'm going to get you out of here on this one. You lead an amazing team. What's one word your team would use to describe you and your

stop? Probably frenetic. If they had to say, I hope they would say, like, authentic, right? I, I am very flawed. There's some things I don't do well. There's some things I do well, but I don't ever kind of pretend to be anything that I'm not. Or I just, I think life would be so much easier if what we were thinking is what we were saying and what we are doing. Understanding that, like, it's not for everyone, right?

I'm not for everyone. Other people are like that we get to all decide. which types of folks we connect with and share value with. So, yeah, it would probably be frenetic, but maybe I hope it would be authentic. Okay. No, I dig it, man. I dig it.

Again, brother, thank you so much for your time today. The Compass Within is available now. Make sure you're ordering it. I don't care if it's Amazon, Barnes & Noble Book 2 million. Definitely go to your local bookstore if you can and support them. That's a great way to support authors is buying at your local books, Robert, where can people find and follow you? Yeah, and Mick, thank you for sharing that.

And look, that course I told you about that we've been selling, we're just giving it away if you buy the hardcover this week. So at compass-within.com on the page, you just put in the order number, order from wherever you want, give us the order number. We'll send you the course. I'm trying to have a million people figure this out. So they can go to Compass Dash Within or they can go to robertblazer.com.

That's where Friday forward is. And that's where podcast is and all that stuff is right there. And I'd love to hear from here. We will make sure we have links to everything in the show notes and description. Robert, love you, man. I appreciate your time. I appreciate what you do and mean to me personally. So just thank you for being the authentic, frenetic person that you are.

Thank you, Mac. All right. For all the viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it. You've been plugged into Mick Unplugged. Don't just listen, take action. Rate and subscribe. Follow me on social and get the full experience at mchuntofficial.com.

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