The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Daily Journal That Transforms Entrepreneurs: Q2 – Spring Edition by Randy Belham

Episode Date: April 4, 2026

The Daily Journal That Transforms Entrepreneurs: Q2 – Spring Edition by Randy Belham Randybelham.com https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Journal-That-Transforms-Entrepreneurs/dp/B0DPQSXKCC Welcome to your entrepreneur’s playbook—a journal designed to help you align your business goals, sharpen your focus, and create lasting success. Whether you’re scaling your business, leading a team, or just striving to manage it all, this journal will guide you to build clarity, stay consistent, and achieve balance. Here’s why it works: Repetition is a powerful tool. By answering these prompts daily, you’re not just reflecting—you’re training your subconscious mind to seek opportunities, solutions, and strategies that align with your vision. Over time, this daily practice rewires your thinking and programs your brain to work for you, even when you’re not actively trying. Consistency is key. Each morning, you’ll set the tone for your day by focusing on your priorities and aligning with your values. You will reflect on your progress, wins, and lessons learned each evening. These daily practices build momentum, helping you become the leader, innovator, and decision-maker your business needs to thrive. This journal is divided into seasons to reflect the unique rhythms of your entrepreneurial journey: Winter: Reflect, plan, and set the foundation for growth. Spring: Focus on action, renewal, and building momentum. Summer: Find balance by reconnecting with joy, creativity, and rest. Fall: Celebrate your wins, reflect on lessons, and finish the year strong. Every prompt has been carefully designed to keep you motivated, accountable, and in tune with your purpose as a business owner. This isn’t just about business—it’s about creating a fulfilling life aligned with your values. Entrepreneurship is a journey, not a sprint. This journal is your accountability partner, motivator, and space to reflect on what’s working and what’s not. Commit to just a few minutes daily, and watch how this simple habit transforms your mindset, business, and life. Your best year starts now. Let’s get to work. —Randy Belham, Life Coach Spring: Growth and Momentum (Q2) Spring is the season of growth and opportunity. The seeds of action you planted in Q1 are now beginning to take root. As a business owner, this is your time to nurture those ideas, refine your approach, and take your work to the next level. This journal will guide you through a season of creativity and innovation, helping you embrace challenges and build momentum. Each prompt is designed to encourage intentional reflection and action, keeping you aligned with your goals.

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That would be quarter two for those of you who don't understand shorthand. And, oh, I should also say it's a, let me reread this. The Daily Journal that transforms Entrepreneurs' Q2 Spring Edition. That way you guys can Google it properly. Out December 2nd, 2024 by Randy Bellum. He's on the show with us today. We'll be talking about the four quarters of the daily journals he has that transforms entrepreneurs, some of his other works and some of the coaching and different

things that he does. So we'll get into it with him and find out more. He's a live coach, serial entrepreneur, and world traveler. He's been over 36 countries, and the number is growing yearly. He founded his first company in 1997. and is compassionate about coaching, writing, and mediation to help others achieve their goals. He is currently based in Montreal, Canada, beautiful city, and travels worldwide, speaking engaging with people and entrepreneurs about leadership, entrepreneurship, and personal development.

And welcome the show. How are you, Randy? Thank you so much. It's a beautiful introduction. I appreciate it. One thing that you said is mediation, which I'm pretty good at it, but it's more meditation. Ah, I've got one of those giant cameras. is in front of the screen. I think I said, instead of saying passion, I said compassion.

Okay. It's all good. Plus I'm old. You know, I have to make all the words super big to remember to read them. And then I'm like, which line am I on? Randy, welcome the show. Give us your dot coms. Where can people find you on the interwables? Sure. I'm easily Googled. My name is Randy Bellum. You put it in Google. You'll find me. My website is randybellum.com. And in all the social media, just put Randy Bellum and you'll find me very easily. B-L-H-A-M. Just think of bells and ham, because that's what I think of when I think of ham. Or more ham. I mean, now I'm hungry. So, Randy, give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside this book?

I developed this journal predominantly because as a reflection tool. I'm a firm believer of putting thoughts onto paper. And I found that online or in different places, there was no actual place for entrepreneurs or high-level leaders that they can have a journal. that they can, you know, populate with very useful prompts. And so that's why I developed it. It's got, you know, prompts that are predominantly useful for entrepreneurs or even C-level executives.

Now, you know, journaling is something top people do. I think most all successful people journal and have that kind of self-reflection. I tend to journal on Facebook. I kind of write my life down. It's kind of nice because every few years it sends you a reminder. Here's what you're doing eight years ago. And you're like, oh, there's my cute puppies. But journaling and having that reflection can really help open our minds to maybe some of the scottomas, the patterns that we have.

You know, some people like me, we just wake up at 50 and we look back on the wreckage of our lives and our successes, but mostly the wreckage and go, geez, we should probably seek therapy. But a journal can kind of help you maybe avoid some of that. Absolutely. You know, a lot of times we're thought that success is from an outside validation. You know, fast cars, big bank accounts, huge titles. But for me, I think a lot of people, and you know, you can take any celebrity pretty much that's written a book on what their journey, what their life was like. And we all, they'll come to a point where the inner work was not done.

So they get to a point that I have everything, but I'm not happy and I'm in internal chaos consistently. And most of the time or sometimes they start going into, you know, bad habits. It can be addiction or whatever it may be. So the journal actually allows you to look internally and ask yourself, you know, profound, deep questions that normally nobody else would ask you. We were just talking on the previous show a couple hours ago with someone about, you know, entrepreneurs and sometimes addiction. You know, sometimes we go for crutches for a long of years. For me, the extra cream sugar from vodka.

And being able to relax, you know, being a high ADHD, is. We had add addictions and some of the things that people go on. But, you know, I wish I'd spent more time journaling. When I go back and I read some of the things I was writing and talking about and goals I had when I was 20, you know, I was listening to a lot of Anthony Robbins back then. That was back when he had the CDs. He was on TV all the time for that bit. But, you know, it's, journaling is so self-reflective. And one of the biggest challenge you have is, you know, we all build scatomas.

We all build kind of self-limiting or self-bullitting belief systems. you know, we do fostian bargains with ourselves sometimes, like I used to say, vodka helps me sleep and be a better entrepreneur because I wake up, I wake up rested and then I'm not up all night with my ADHD. But no, it doesn't actually. It's just running from it. Now, you've targeted this towards entrepreneurs as opposed to other people. Why do you hate other people?

No, I'm just kidding. Why did you focus this on entrepreneurs? Because I'm a serial entrepreneur myself. So what I found, you know, growing my companies was I came to a place that, again, the inner work wasn't done. And I was in a deep depression, if you can put it that way, almost suicidal. And I ended up packing my bags and moving to Thailand for three months and living with the monks. Oh, wow. And spent time in meditation there. So when I, I still did some, you know, my journey lasted another three years on that traveling route. And when I came

back, I was like, okay, how can I serve my purpose? You know, we always have that question of what is my purpose. And I noticed that in the entrepreneurial field in particular, where there's a high rate of divorce, there's a high rate of burnout, there's a high rate of addiction and health issues, of course. I said, what can I do? How can I serve this demographics? That's for me, it was underserved. To a point where I said, okay, I'm going to start coaching. And then that's where the development of the journal came in a couple of years after I started my coaching practice. Now you have four different journals for four different quarters of the year. Tell us how that works and how it's set up. I guess the Q2 Daily Journal we're talking about today and we let off with starts today on

April 1st. Exactly. So I use this very similar principle to business ownership and entrepreneurialism, which is all divided into quarters. What are we doing in Q1? What are we doing in Q2? Which is great when we're planning for the business, but how do we transpire that into our own personal lives and how we're being good leaders to the people that we serve within our company. So that's where the breakdown came out between Q1 and Q4. And then I did more of a topic-based or a theme-based along the lines of seasons. So seasonality, especially in Canada or any of the Northeastern states. I know, I believe you're in California. Yeah, but I mean, we all have like different experiences. Winter is winter and I think pretty much everywhere in the U.S., but it's just a different

kind of winter, right? It's just year-round, isn't it? Something like that. I don't know. How long do you guys have snow up there in Canada? We still have a little bit now, but, you know, summer usually kicks in and around June, and it goes to about September. But it gets up to 100, 110. So it's still, is that Celsius or Fahrenheit? Oh, so you guys are getting up to 110 now? Oh, yeah, yeah. We get some really hot summer. Like global warming, I guess. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Did you guys have a lot of snow this year? I've been spending,

time with my mom in Utah a little bit more than Vegas. And it snowed like twice here in the valley or three times. And that's really weird. Yeah, we didn't. That was a cold winter. I could say there's not, there wasn't that much snow this year. I mean, there's, there was some, obviously, but nothing that's, you know, crazy. It's kind of weird. It's almost like the earth hates us now. Why? Why? We're such great caretakers. We're so good at the earth. So we throw trash on all over the But we're good. It's funny on my Instagram post. I just had my story from last year, and I put it into, you know, my, you know, you get the memories on Instagram, and I put it post in my story.

And it was exactly that is we inherited the earth. And I'm standing on the St. Lawrence River. There's a picture of me. And we inherited the earth. But here we are throwing trash all over the place into it. Right. It's funny that you mentioned that today, because that was my post from last year. You know, I grew up in the 70s, before Carter invented the EPA.

And, you know, we had, we had like rivers on fire and shit. And you just kind of figured that the, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the color drinking water that you drink out of the faucet, you know, just had minerals in it. You know, it's probably good for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, mineral, a little bestis there, a little bit of plutonium. You know, it's, it's all good, man.

Clean you out. In fact, people used to do that with plutonium. They used to put it in the drinking water vase that was, that had but totally the bottom and they would drink it. You were supposed to drink six of them a day. because it was good for you. I mean, it will definitely clean out everything that's wrong with you and make you whole again, but that will be in a coffin. Anyway, that was dark, Chris.

Jesus, what a show. So we'll go light. I mispronounce that, of course, in the bio, but you like meditation for entrepreneurs and why stillness can be an advantage in business. Tell us about that. So meditation is a powerful tool, right? I wasn't introduced to it, like I said, until I was it went to type. Thailand, I mean, really introduced it. I knew what medication was as a general concept.

What I found out living with the monks in silence for these three months was that we say a lot of things in our mind. And it all is from the past or the future. It's one of these things. And it's not true what we say. They're just movies on repeat and whatever we're catching on to. So when it comes to the entrepreneurial world and becoming a profound leader, it's fundamental to take a step back and go into silence. It doesn't have to be hours of silence or three years in Thailand, but it can be just, you know, five or ten minutes just to step back and ask three, you know, three really powerful questions. One, is this true? How is this serving the company? And what would happen if fear was not involved in this equation? Oh, that's an interesting question. So if we can do that, the decisions become more profound

and can cost you literally months, if not years, of unnecessary expenses. You know, questions are the great thing about with your journal and different things. Questions are some of the most important things. I remember taking that from the second book, Awakening the Giant Within by Tony Robbins. Yeah, he talks about there is sometimes successful people. They just ask better questions, like you said. And I, you know, I remember, you know, I used to try and get out of my black box, my, my box of, you know, whatever belief system I had. And I would ask people, you know, I'd be like, I think this is a great idea.

But then I would go pull my employees, my board, my people that were my advisors. And this is really as good as I've jacked myself up to think it is. Is this, I mean, what am I missing here? I mean, it seems like the greatest idea ever. But surely, I'm not seeing the downside for some. reason. I can't, what's the fallacy here that I'm missing? Because there, there has to be, you know, somewhat of a downsize because, you know, if you can live with, if you can assess, well, the upside's better than the downside and we can probably live with the downside, then you can,

you know, move forward. Sure. But so, yeah, it's, it's a real big deal. And so meditation is important. What kind of meditation do you recommend? Do I need, you know, because I went to Thailand for three months and all I came back with was I had to see the doctor for penicillin. So evidently, I didn't see the monks. I don't know what that means. That's my favorite joke. Yeah. Yeah. People talk of the same thing. They were like, oh, so you went to Thailand for three months. So how was your experience? Wink, wink, ah. Yeah, yeah, sure you were at the monks. Yeah, I did some meditation, too.

Anyway, but yeah, what sort of meditation do you? So the one that I use is the more common term is vipasana. A lot of people know that. So it's just being mindful. Vipasana. Yeah, that sounds like a pasta I get in Italy or something. Could be, yeah, best part. Yeah. It's just mindful of breath.

So it's just sitting in silence and just focusing on the breath. Because what essentially will happen at one point is you're going to go into thought. We're human. And it's all about just once those thoughts come in, it's not attaching to the thought, whether it's true, whether the emotional. It's just so watch it as if it's a cloud on the sky and it's just coming by, whatever that thought is and just let it go. And eventually what you're going to start seeing is these patterns, these repeatable patterns that are coming into your mind. And those are the ones that you can journal on and say, okay, how can I stop this from happening? What do I need to see?

What's the, how can I rewrite this within my script within myself? And that for me is the most profound way. So there's multiple different ways of meditation. But one thing people get confused with meditation and I've spoken about is the reflection. meditation is not thinking sitting there and thought and thinking about everything it's pretty much the opposite whereas allowing the thoughts just to come in but allowing them to go as well and not attaching to them i mean that's logic and reason right stoicism is finest you you focus on your logic you focus on reason and you don't let emotion shadow that it's kind of hard because we're

we're all emotional beings and we make sometimes a lot of decisions based on emotion especially we buy shit that no one else gives us shit, whether we own or not. What's that fight club line? We buy shit to impress people that don't care about us. But, you know, having that reflection, I think that's the importance, too, of the, you know, I do this thing called gratitude for gratefulness day, and it's my Sunday. And Sunday's my grounding day. Technically, I actually call it that the grounding day, huh?

Beautiful. I love it. The grounding day. This is why we talk about shit, because they come up with better ideas. Exactly. And so every Sunday I do, this. And it's my day. There's no dates on, I'm single, so there's no dates on Sunday. Sunday's my day. Hugh He used to have a day where he had two days with no girls. He had one day to work on his archives,

no women allowed. And then he had his buddies over for Thursday or Friday night, all of his men, friends, his men crew, no women are allowed. And so I don't, that basically that's my personal day. That's what I'm saying. So there's no distractions allowed on that day. You know, I'll text people, but phone calls, but, you know, we're not, that's my day. Friday and Saturday, that's date nights. That's all that kind of crap. And so I usually take myself out to a nice steak. I go someplace peaceful.

I usually like to go. There's a lake side restaurant that I like to go up to this. It's right on the lake and you can sit on the patio and get this beautiful view. And so that's kind of like a meditative thing. But I like with journaling every day and how you've outlined it, you know, you're every day on point reflecting. And that's what I do on Sundays. But you're reflecting on your day. You're thinking about what maybe you did, what you didn't do,

maybe ways you can approve. Because I talk to so many leaders, and I'll be like, what is your leadership type? I don't know. What sort of patterns do you use in leadership? What is your toolkit? What do you go? I don't know. I just leave.

And, you know, and sometimes it's poorly. And sometimes it's really working well for him because, you know, you kind of have your little toolbox, your system. Sure. Back to. But, you know, generally can really help you stay on point and help you be reflective different day to day. I think I should do more of that. No, it's absolutely

true. And the way that I've also structured the journal is that there's a morning session and there's an evening session. The morning is all about, you know, in French we have an expression it's, we're setting the table. So when you have a company come over, whatever, you set the table, you set a nice table, put all the nice cutlery, all in the fine china

on, and, you know, you're receiving your guess. So it's the same kind of thing, is you're setting the table for the day. What was that term again? In French, it's called me la tab. No, watch your language on the show, but, no, I'm just kidding.

I just had to set that joke up, sorry, I haven't liked in that joke lately. Anytime somebody says something, we're going to go, hey, man, watch the language on the show. But, you know, you're from Canada, so we can cut you an exception up there. Sure, sure.

I'm a big, I'm a big trailer park boys. Is trailer park boys? Yeah, the trailer park, yeah. Yeah, I'm a big Rush fan. I love everything Canadian. The Second City, comedy. Who's your favorite hockey team? You know what?

I'm not into hockey. So I guess I'm a really bad Canadian fan. I'm failing at that. I do have a favorite curling team. Does that help? I'm going to cheat here and say the Olympic curling team. I don't even know who the fuck they are, but they're good. I've always looked at that sport and went,

maybe we should take over their country and make them to 51st day. But no, I'm sure it's a fine sport. God knows, you don't want to be associated with us. It's bad enough few people have to live next door to us. I always tell my Canadian friends, I go, I go, us Americans, we're like, we're like, we're like the Billy Bush or Billy Carter sort of, who's the Bush one? The bad Bush son. But we're like the embarrassing brother who's always starting fights and getting drunk and high on coke and shit and causing problems.

You have to always bail us out of jail and shit. We're that, we're that family member and you guys have to live next door to us. And you guys are like the nice people who are just like, are you fucking serious? We're within the nuclear blast of these idiots. and they keep starting wars. Yeah, but you know, to your point is, you know, you feel it like that. But, you know, from my perspective, and I don't want to get into the political side of it, but, you know, we love America.

You know, we travel there. We go to Florida. We go to California. I have friends that immigrated to the U.S. Americans are great. You know, there's a lot good to be said about it. Yeah. There's no reason to say, you know, sorry for whatever you're going through.

It's just part of the cycle. So there's always these cycles of politicians that come in. And it's just the way the cookie crumbles. Yeah. I just always tell my Canadian friends, we love you. And we still love Russia and Park Park. Trailer Park boys. Some people say I'm Ricky.

So I don't know. That's what my friends tell me. Maybe that was when I was drinking. Anyway, back on topic. With the journals, now you had another book, too, that you had that wasn't a journal. Do we want to get a plug in for that? You can. I mean, it's just how to live, you know, in the present moment.

It's a small e-book that's a very easy read. Can probably finish it in a few hours. That was my first, you know, my first try at writing a book, and I thought it was like a good start to go on to. It's really all about what I've learned in Thailand, about living actually in the present moment where most of us say we understand it conceptually. We say we'd like to live in the present moment, but we're continuously reaching for everything that's happened in the past

or what's going to happen in the future. And there's this battle always inside of our, our minds. So I always say, you know, people tell me what, you know, what's the secret? And I said, just the present moment is the perfect moment. Like right now, you and I, we're here, we're talking. We are. There's nothing wrong here. Or, you know, we're talking. We're alive. We're, you know, so what more do we need? And then as soon as I say that, they're like, yeah, that's right. And then two seconds later, our mind is gone. Oh, yeah, but this happened before this person did me wrong or I have to do this tomorrow. I got, you know, this not perfect. It's not a perfect moment.

I go ahead and what you're thinking is not perfect maybe, but the moment itself is very perfect. Yeah, the only thing you can change in this world is the present. You can't change the past. You know, I learned this from Eckhart Toll and that it's probably a good stamp of approval for meditation and mediation. But, you know, it's entrepreneurs get burned out. They go through what you talk about, decision fatigue and uncertainty, pressure. You know, now with AI and the world seems to be moving at like five trillion a mile. It's like somebody took the world and just gave it an extra spin.

Roll the dice there. And you ever take the globe and you just walk by a globe that's standing on a thing, Gen X, Gen Z, you can look up what a globe is. And you just swack it. So it just goes 500 miles an hour. That's kind of what it feels like with AI right now and some of the shit going on in this world. For sure. And you're just like, hey, man, who moved my cheese?

And because my cheese, someone hit the globe and now it's over in, I don't know, Japan or something. my cheese flew, you know, over there. So now I got to get it. Talk to us about how some of the different things like journaling and meditation can help that. Sorry, I didn't get the first part. Tell us how meditation and your journal, journaling can help get away from some of that fatigue. It comes down to, again, you know, the first key question is what is true?

What is, you know, so in meditation, what is true? What are you thinking about that's actually true? That answers a lot. And then after that, you can look at what, what? Where can you move without fear? We're often stuck or self-doubt or ego. That's another big one, especially entrepreneurs at a higher level or any level. Many are the alpha that you may have heard that term.

So what's that? I am that term. Yeah. So what it does is it allows you, you know, in meditation, just to sit back and say, okay, what's all this self-doubt? What is this ego that, you know, things that I, that I, that I firmly believe is true, that it's not necessarily true. And it questions everything.

It allows you to go deeper. It's kind of like coaching yourself, because that's what I do on a daily basis in coaching. It's all about open-ended questions. I never give advice. I never give, you know, tell people what to do or how to do it. I just dive in with really profound questions and get deeper with open-ended questions. So the journaling and the meditation is that tool that really lowers the volume and that inner piece that so many of us seek and that freedom, that's the most profound tool to do that.

And of course, it's, you know, it's consistent action, always. You can't expect to go to the gym one day and come out looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So it's about consistent action and eventually, you know, as time goes by, you're going to get much more powerful in the inner mindset, in the inner chaos that's happening. It's going to calm down substantially. So those are, you know, those are the, they're the best tools out there. Better than medication. Actually, the monks in Thailand used to, like when they spoke, we weren't allowed to speak,

but they spoke to us. Oh, really? And one of them was like, say, one of them said, all you Westerners, and he was laughing about it. He goes, you guys just take pills. You guys just take pills to solve these problems, you know? So it's, it's powerful. It's a powerful tool.

Yeah. I mean, it definitely is. You got me thinking about it again. I came with something last night that I, I added to my calendar that might be close. Maybe I'm just slowly working to journaling every day. Although I technically, Facebook is my journal. I share things overshare things over there and people go, what the fuck?

But hopefully they think. But I came with something that was my daily thing. And whereas, oh, I came with something called awe of wonderment of life. And so it's a daily thing. It's on my calendar now with my daily stoic journaling hour, which I don't do clearly. I think I have a daily stoic book that I journal with. I have to find where it is. But I see that now on my calendar.

Bill, I came with this thing yesterday last night called awe of wonderment of life. And I want to try every day to find something that's, that to take awe in, to find something that's a wonderment of life. And I'm a photographer by hobby. And it's not like I'm great or anything, folks.

Give me a break. But I'm a photographer. And so usually you're always seeing. the moment, human moment, a beautiful moment, or it could be a tragic moment too, but you're looking for a human moment where you can define, you know, some level of humanity or the experience of humanity in an image. And so, you know, I go street shooting and I'm usually hunting for the moment. I'm looking for that thing. And sadly, that moment sometimes, you know, it's only there for a split second. And if you can capture it with a camera, then even, you know,

know, you're even luckier. But, you know, I was, I think I was, I think I was, I think I, one of my favorite things is to go through the world's pictures, the best pictures of the week, that they're taken by Reuters or the AP or by, you know, I don't know, probably Getty. Well, Getty owns everything at this point. And I think they probably like every damn picture in existence at this point. Getty images. Not, not, not, Italy of Rush.

For those of you know, Rush fan and Canadian fan. But, yeah, and looking for it. the awe and the wonderment. Like every day I want to go find something to look at. And a lot of those times in those photos you'll see, or I fall out of black and white photography and portrait. And so sometimes, you know, there's just haunting black and white images people take of buildings or people or landscapes. And that make you really kind of think. And I used to do that when I lived in California. I go down at the beach and look at the awe, the sunset, and the ocean. And, you know, realize that thing had been there longer than any of my

problems and right now my problems meant shit really when it came down to the eternity that that thing's been running and will be i just sat on the beach and i just felt so stupid because i'm just like i'm just the five trillion human being this ocean is witnessed sitting here booming about his stupid problems and it's just sitting there going we'll be here tomorrow i won't your problems i love the idea of of focusing on this because then you can and now there's a series of questions in there that prompts you in the book each day maybe? Correct, exactly. Okay. And they, they kind of help you, do they help you with balance your life and your work? You know, you're about that a lot now, work and life balance? Absolutely. I mean, the prompts are open and there's, there's room to write. So

it's your journal, it's your personal. It's, it's, it's however you see, you know, like a question could be, you know, what would, what would make this day the most meaningful day? That could be a work answer, it could be a business answer, it could be your own personal answer. But it's, again, it's setting your table for your day and putting that on paper, that intention on paper, will make you seek it out for the rest of the day. And the other thing also is the prompts, some of them that come up on a repetitive basis because it's, it's, you start looking for it. Your subconscious is programmed now to look for these answers as you're going through your day. So you're looking continuously for, okay, what am I going to write on my journal tomorrow of

you know, what was the greatest thing that happened to me today, example? So you're looking for that throughout the day, okay, was that the greatest thing that happened to me? Oh, so far, so good. And then you keep going. And that sets up the subconscious. And so when you're talking about the awe, like what are we in awe with in every given moment, I come back to that. That is happiness right there.

If you look at, you know, I'm sure you maybe have done the test before you, maybe not. But if I tell you, you know, the next 20 seconds, count all the red things in your room, you close your eyes. And then I tell you, okay, how many blue things were there? you're not going to know the answer because our focus is on all those little red things. If we're looking at everything that could be sad or what could be wrong or everything that's, you know, not going well for us in that day or moment, we're going to find them. There's going to be a confirming bias for that.

But if we just stop and say, okay, what's beautiful here? In every given moment, there's something beautiful happening around us, every single moment. Right now my moment is talking to you. Oh, my moment is talking to you because I love doing this as a job. and I love people's stories and all the journeys. And, you know, I've had people say to me, they go, Chris, you know, you seem to lower a lot of stuff. You've done 20-year-shows, you've had these experts on the show.

You know, you pretty much probably get bored with knowing everything. And I'm like, I'm like, number one, I don't know everything. I'm not the Dunning Krueger sort of person. And number two, even if, you know, someone comes on, because, you know, leadership and all these things we talk about all the time, a lot of times you guys will give me different perspectives of looking at stuff from a different angle. It's kind of like the same thing, but it's that it gives me, you know, sometimes their angle on it is different.

And I'm like, oh, I never really thought of it from that angle. That's a, and then they'll reinforce the fact that, like we just did, where I have on my thing to journal every day and I don't. Bad Chris. I'll smack myself with that. I know a great journal, and I can send you one. Yeah, yeah, I know this guy. Give me your address. I'll send you one.

That's a deal. Let's talk about some of the offerings you have on your website so people can know what you. you do there. I see some different things here. You do life coaching. And who's your ideal client? If they're out there listening, who's your ideal client? And how rich do they have to be to work with you? It's not a question of richness. I mean, but the people that I work with the most is entrepreneurs or leaders that have had some kind of success in their life. They've, you know, they've reached it financially and whatever that may look like. And they, you know, but there's something missing. They know that there's that inner chaos that's happening.

Those are the people that I predominantly work with. So CEOs, you know, business owners. I work with a wide variety of people, but those are, that's my ideal client that I, that I focus on, where I actually I niche down on if they want to say it that way. But it can come from different areas. It's not, there's no barrier. And, you know, my coaching fees are really reasonable. I have one-on-one coaching.

I also have group coaching so that can help people that are not necessarily, you know, can they can afford a one-on-one type relationship. But I only take 10 clients at a time. Oh, really? Yeah, it's geared like that because what I say is I over-serve my clients. So we have these one-on-one chats similar to what we're having today, but it's more coaching. And during the week, I'm always texting out to my clients and saying, you know, whether it's a reflective text just to make them think, or it can be an accountability text where I'm saying,

okay, did you, you know, you had these action items to do this week, where are you at and what you, you know, are you hitting on it? So that's the way I work with my one-on-one clients and then group coaching is similar format, but it's in a group setting. Ah. And you give out the journals, help people, they don't give them out, but you sell them out and, you know, help people do their things and get better. What else do we need to talk about, any offerings that we maybe needs to do? I know here you, you can apply for private advisory on your website. Yeah, that's the one-on-one's coaching. And so basically, Basically, it's a free session, but the people that book on that, there's a series of questionnaire that they have to answer before booking the session.

And then I decide if it's something that I want to, I can help them with or if I'm possible to help them with. Because I don't, like I said, I only take 10 clients. So I'm pretty selective on who I work with. And I also do speaking gigs. People I speak on stages. My story is really that inner chaos about, you know, using meditation, using mindfulness tools to actually, you know, understand. better of what's happening internally and become a better leader. Become a better leader.

I mean, that's all something we need to do. But yeah, we need to reflect more on what we do and how we do it. Leadership from ego is a horrible place to be. You know, one thing you talk about is emotional intelligence. It's one of the things you have listed here on the website you help people with. Why is it an emotional intelligence becoming so popular as a leadership topic and like servant leadership, stuff like that? I think it's important in all facets of life, whether it's a leadership

of a company or even as a parent or a teacher. Emotional intelligence is all about, you know, understanding where your emotions are coming from, how they're coming, what you're thinking, because an emotion that comes from what you're thinking. Whatever's popping in your mind, you're going to have that emotional reaction to it. As we talked about, you know, meditation helps you get powerful

at those thoughts and understanding them. And so when that emotion comes up, so now when I get like an emotion of, let's say, anger, which is a human, you know, even monks get angry, believe it or not. But that emotion, the anger, and right away my reflex because of my practice is what was I just thinking of? So it could be someone cuts me off on the highway, right? How angry. You know, some people get really angry at that.

Me not so much, but they get cut off. So you get a little bit of anger. What's the thought? Oftentimes the thought might be, who does that person think they are? What an ass or whatever it is, right? But the reality can be that that person is in a rush to get to the hospital, to get to a job interview, to get to work and not be fired. There's many things that can happen there.

So that's what emotional intelligence is all about. And the leadership is profound because I know, and I've seen it, where people get fired because of an emotional response. But the person that got fired is probably one of their best employees that they've ever had. And to replace them costs a ton of money. And you're not even guaranteed that you're going to have. a good employee as good as that one that you just let go. Yeah.

You know, and it can be like caught like spending. It can be, I mean, there's so many, so many ways that emotional intelligence comes into play. Yeah, we,

I mean, we all have those moments where we kind of have a crash out sometimes, you know, if you get me where I don't have a whole lot of sleep, like if I'm running short on sleep, I have, I know that I have a higher propensity to pop and, and,

and lose my shit, crash out, maybe. But, you know, Knowing that, I'm able to watch myself a little bit more and go, hey, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing there, buddy? We know you're short of sleep.

We know that you're not Mr. Happy. Go lucky today. So why don't you just take your little ass back to bed and take a little nappy nap there, boy, you know, put the baby back to bed, in other words. I love that. Yeah, it really, it helps, but it doesn't always help because sometimes if you trigger me, then I just, you know, then I rip your head. off and I'm walking around with your skeleton in my hands going, sorry, oops, my bad,

that sort of thing. Then there's the collateral damage, but that's the whole thing is that emotion intelligence is there, that's the whole thing is to prevent that, especially in leadership. I mean, it can cost not only a leadership, like in couples relationships and relationships with your kids. I mean, it's a, it can be detrimental for years. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, sometimes you can say something and that ends a relationship. You know, which explains why I'm still single. True story, folks. So as we go out, anything more we haven't discussed, Randy, about your books and what you do and how you help people. I think we covered it all. And, you know, obviously I can talk about this for hours and hours and hours. I need to have to bill you, folks. Sure.

Sure. No, I think, I think, you know, people that are listening to book a one-on-one session with me and just, it's free. The first one's free. It's always, and I just have this conversation where, you know, I can, get deeper into your the inner workings of what's happening and the clarity and that awareness that we talked about today. Well, anyway, it's been insightful and you've got me back to where I'm going to try and journal. I bought your book, the Q2 Daily Journal there.

And it's on the next 24 hour. Awesome. Thank you. So today is the first of April, 26. Don't write me on YouTube, people. They do this thing on YouTube where they're like, oh, you're so stupid that that thing you reviewed 10 years ago. the price is at $99.9. It's $0.0.00.

You're so dumb. And you're like, did you look at the date on the thing? Like, they're still, they're still reviewing my reviews on, and commenting on, like, the Xbox 360 review I did in 2014 and shit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're still writing stuff. It's so stupid.

It's not $3.49 anymore. It's really cheap, you know. You did a bad review. A lot of these went bad. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, seriously. Like, they're still commenting on the, on the review we did of like the iPhone two and three or something oh my gosh yeah that was like

almost 20 years ago it's it's it's I guess there's a lot of countries you know it's worldwide there's these countries I guess they're getting they're finally getting those phones or something okay so they're just secondhand making their way around the world and like all the people they're like hey my iPhone 5 won't turn on do you know how to fix it I'm like what do I look like Apple anyway so thank you very much for coming on Randy it's been fun to have you on and insightful. And you got me back to journal and I've got your book on order and hopefully everyone will order it as well. It is entitled. Let's see. Let me switch back to where my screen was. The Daily Journal that transforms entrepreneurs, Q2, the Spring Edition. And you can, of course, get the Q1, the Q1,

the Q3, the Q4, different editions as well as you go throughout the year. So get those prompts to cultivate your gratitude, reflect on progress, and set clear intentions. That's what I mainly do on, on Sundays, and I'll try and do it daily now, is focus on the gratitude, because it really helps reground you and think about what's important. It kind of map out the rest of your life. You got have those life planning days, folks. Otherwise, you get to B-58 and you're an idiot with a podcast, you've achieved nothing like me. Anyway, guys, thanks for tuning in. Go to Good Re-Sukk, Fortress Christch, Chris Foss. LinkedIn.com, Fortress Chris Foss. Or else I'm going to throw myself in front of my own bus again. Go over for the show, damn it. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you.

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