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Welcome to Unpacked Podcasts

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with your host leadership consultant

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, ron Harvey of Global Core Strategies

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and Consulting . Ron's delighted to

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have you join us as he unpacks and

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shares his leadership experience , designed

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to help you in your leadership

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journey . Ron believes that leadership

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is the fundamental driver towards making

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a difference . So now to find

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out more of what it means to unpack

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leadership , here's your host , ron

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Harvey Good afternoon .

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This is Ron Harvey , the vice president and the chief

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operating officer , global Core Strategies

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and Consulting . We're a leadership firm

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based out of Columbia , south Carolina , and

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all of our work that we spend we've been doing for the last

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10 years is really helping leaders develop

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the skill sets , the emotional intelligence to

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take better care of the people that they're responsible

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for and responsible to . Everything

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that we do is about leaders taking care of their team at the

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end of the day , and so we're super excited

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and we love it . What we learned over time

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is people wanted to know how we did it , so we created a

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podcast called Unpack , with Ron Harvey , and

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what that is is allowing us to ask real leaders

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, real questions from across the globe . None

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of the questions are prepared . I'm not sure what I'm going to ask

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our guests . I'm not sure how they're going to respond

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to it . What we do promise you , though , is we

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will talk and be transparent and

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be real . We will unpack something

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that's going to be useful for you , so hang on with

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us for the next 20 minutes as we get into

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it . So I'm excited to have our guest with

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me is I have Cedric Layit , who's

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on here with us , and he's out of Georgia . So

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, cedric , thank you for saying yes , thank

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you for being risky enough to know . Not know any

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other questions , but yet you said yes anyway . So

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thank you for taking that risk with me . How much like

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to introduce yourself . What would you want our audience to know about you ?

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Yeah . So first of all , thank you so

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much for having me on the podcast and some honor

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and to anyone that is listening

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. You know , just take a seat

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. I'm pretty sure Ron has a

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great track record by talking to

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guests such as myself , so we're going to be open

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, transparent , things like that . So that's the first

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thing I want to say . So about me . So

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I am known as the trucking

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king . I have been

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in trucking for a long

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time now . I started learning

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about it back in the early 2000s

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and I actually started my own business

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in trucking my first trucking business

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about 15 years ago . So I

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learned a lot . I was out there blood

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, sweat , tears , just myself

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and just going through the mud so I was able to learn

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a lot and by that I

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was able to take all of that knowledge

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, experience and all of the tools

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and things like that , and I was able to help

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a lot of other people across

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the United States .

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Wow , sweat equity . That's when

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you got out there . You roll them sleeves up , you dive

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in you start doing the work and I'll tell you , it's

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great to have a degree , but that's what

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equity means something . So you put the time

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in yes .

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Yes .

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Yeah , and you think about it . I mean , I

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looked at your bio and phenomenal information

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and what I try to do is have the conversation

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. So when you think about the idea of

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leadership and you're running this company

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, you didn't do , you've had some failure

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in your journey . How did you recover ? Because

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everybody thinks all of a sudden you're a success overnight

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. I say yeah , about 365

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or 465 of those nights . But

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you started it and you restarted and you lost

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everything at one point . How did you recover

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from losing everything that you've built

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up for so ?

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long you lost it . Yeah , so

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basically one of the biggest

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things and , to be honest with you , this podcast

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is not enough time .

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So I'll just shorten everything down .

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But to answer your question , so

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the first thing is

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I believe in myself . Okay

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, that's the very first thing . And

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whatever adversity comes to me , I'm going to say I believe

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in myself , I believe in myself , I believe in myself , I'm not

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afraid of it . You know

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, I don't raise my hand and I don't , you

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know , tell it to come my way or anything like that

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. But when challenges

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arise and when they come , I Analyze

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it and I take it head-on , because

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if you don't , it will drive you literally

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in the dirt , and I'm serious , I've seen

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that with other people to where they were driven

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, literally in the dirt , and I'm talking about

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Casket graved . Your heart is what

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I'm talking about . So , so , literally

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. So I was able to just

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take life out of horns and

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Just not give

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up , believe in myself , knowing

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that I have a purpose in life and just

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continuing on . And

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when you have that type of attitude

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, I Promise you

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, nothing can stop you and you can bounce

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back from anything and and it's

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all about your thinking , your

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attitude , it's about things

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like that , and you will be able to just Turn

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into a Mack truck , a bulldozer

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, if you will , and you can just

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run through walls and you can just tear

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down Challenges and things like

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that in your life . So , to be

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honest with you , it's a self

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thing , it's a mind thing , it's

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a individual thing . So

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, but that's just kind of a snippet of

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some of the ways I was able to bounce back .

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Yes , thank you for condition and you're exactly

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right in the time frame because there are a lot

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of stuff that you can share with us . I love

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the fact that you reference back to the mattress . So you know

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he's the trucking king , so he's gonna use

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some trucking analysis for us today . So

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he said I like that Mack truck , you're gonna go through it

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, but you also . What I've learned

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over time is that you can teach people skill sets

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in 30 seconds , but

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you said something that takes a lifetime to teach belief

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in yourself . Mm-hmm , people

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struggle with belief . I

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can teach people , like in the world that I am

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in and dealing with leaders at all levels . I can

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teach them how to . But I say how much

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do you believe in you , mm-hmm ? Because

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even if you have a phenomenal process

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or a piece of equipment , if you don't believe in you , it's

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not as good as it could be Right . So all you

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that are listening he's dropping some serious nuggets for

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you . Please believe in yourself . You're

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going to encounter failure . You're going to kind

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of challenges . You're gonna have these times when you

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feel like it's not going to work . Yes

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, well , you got to say are you willing to do the work ? Do

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you think you can still get through it , so we call

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it resiliency in our space . How do

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you bounce back ? Super important . So

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, patrick , you're running a company now you got , I

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think , over 20 trucks now that you have in your fleet , and

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so you got a lot of people that are doing the work on

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the day to day . How did you get out of the roll-up on the ground

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doing it all and I know you've done it all , yeah

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how did you step up to the level now where you

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can't be the person doing it all anymore

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? How did you separate from get behind that truck ? I'm

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sure it's fun and if you enjoyed it , but it's

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not the best use of your time . Yeah , how do you up

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leaders , stop doing the stuff that they love doing

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and start being the leader they need to be ?

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Yeah . So first of all , so I

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actually had to start

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over from negative not zero , very

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important Negative

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, not zero . I was jumping up and down

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and I made it to zero .

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Yeah you owe somebody some stuff , so

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even the money you brought in wasn't even your money yet .

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You get it right . So

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I do want to put that out there . But

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to answer your question run so

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I Started off in

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the truck again . I'm not that person

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that just talks about trucks and Just

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tell people about trucks and the business and

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things like that and just on the business side

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, because there's a lot of that out there

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also . But I'm that person that

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went and got my CDL license

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, got the truck , got the trailer

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started from scratch , started from the ground

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, started in the mud when I drove

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OTR over the road All

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down by the border , mexico and all type of things

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all over . That's me . I'm that person

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, and so I was able to learn a lot

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from that , and so that

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experience helped

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me transition into leadership

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. I'm a firm believer

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if you go in the mud yourself

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, you can teach someone

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else how to survive in the mud

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. I am a firm believer

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of that . So I Also

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realize that me

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being in the seat is not

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something that I just wanted

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forever . It was a means to an end

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, is what it was . It was to prepare

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me to something else , and

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I'll be honest with you we're being transparent . I

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also learned that I can

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make way more money Not

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being in the truck yes

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, being outside of the truck

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and so I was

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determined to learn everything being

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in the truck so I can take that knowledge

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and that information and transition

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that and you will

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be surprised of how it

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helps you in your transition and Me

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going from negative to millionaire

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status . I mean that

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Was something that

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did not come snap of a finger , blink

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of an eye . It came from blood , sweat

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and tears , experience in

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the mud , getting out there , learning

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everything . And the transition was

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not a perfect transition I would never

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lie to you and tell you that it was but

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it Made it a

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smoother Transition

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. It made it a smoother transition . So

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from that point , I

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was able to build a

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team of people , because

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Every great

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leader knows that

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is about who you

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surround yourself with . Yes

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, and that's one of the top qualities

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of being a good

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leader . That's what I mean

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. You can be awesome yourself , but

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if you're running a multi-million dollar operation

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, it doesn't really matter

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about you being

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awesome , just wholeheartedly . What

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matters is you're awesome and you

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have other people that are awesome

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with you and around

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you . So I was able to

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get other people with

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the same mindset like

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myself . Some of them were family members

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. I have family members that have been working

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with me for several

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years now , like going on like seven

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and eight years , some . We have some

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people that are outside . It's not

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family members , but you gotta

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, whether it's a relative or non-relative

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, what's important , they gotta have the same

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mindset that you have

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. And so I was able to do that and

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surround myself with that . So I

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wanna put this in a snippet . So I

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was able to learn myself , bless

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with and tears . I was also able

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to go after people

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with the same mindset that I

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have , because it was gonna make my company

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smoother and better and it was gonna make the

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job and everything we do every day better . And

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I'll tell you something else that also helped

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I invested in myself

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as far as leadership

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knowledge . Now

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, that's very important that

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someone gets this .

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Yeah , I would go down and pack that for you , cedric

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, because you're exactly right , because you can invest

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in the truck , you can invest in supplies

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. But once you get to the role where you

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make the shift to get out of the truck per

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se driving and not making it just

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a job for Cedric you have to get to

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a place where how do you invest in your personal

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and professional growth to lead this team . So

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, if you're listening and you're watching what Cedric

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and I are talking about , there has to be a transition

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that you get better . There

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has to be an opportunity where you elevate

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and raise the level of your expertise

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on leading people , not driving trucks , or

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whether that task is that you do every day Doesn't

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mean you forget it , that you don't know it , but

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now it can't just be you behind the

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wheel . Cedric said something important . It's

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hard for your company to grow if

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you got to always do everything

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in the company . Yes , there's

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just no way that it's gonna be . It's not scalable , it's not

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even sustainable . Yes , if you

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got to do everything , that's not sustainable and

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it's not scalable . So if you're

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really building a company , you really want to be the entrepreneur

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, you really want an organization or you're a corporate America

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. What are you investing in you

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personally ? Invest in your own growth

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? Yes , so I love that you went there , that

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you invested in that . Can you share

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a person that was a mentor or role

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model Because oftentimes you get into where

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you are who was a mentor or role

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model that was a couple of steps ahead of you , that

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took you under their wing and say come on , man , I know you don't know what you're

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doing . Let me help you .

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Wow , yes , I actually have

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two people that I'm gonna share with you and

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, to be honest with you , it's multiple people

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, but it's two main people I want to share with you

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my first mentor

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and my first leader

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and my first mentor

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person . My first leader

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, the person that helped me out the most

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was my father . I

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saw how my father

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treated my mom . I saw

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how my father raised his family

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I'm the youngest out of five children and

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I saw and I watched

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him and I'm gonna be honest with you

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, I'm not sitting here today telling you my father

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was perfect , because he was

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not , which no

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, fathers are perfect .

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Yeah , none . If you find them , let me know who they

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are .

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They know who this is . Yeah , exactly

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, but what he showed us as

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a family man , as a leader . I learned

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so much from that and I

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thank God I was able to learn that from

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my father before he passed away . My father passed

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away back in 2021

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. And I was sad

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, but it wasn't all sadness . I

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was happy of the things that I

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was able to learn from him and what he taught

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me , because he taught me so

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much . He taught me how to be a man . He

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started me on the leadership journey . He

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taught me how to talk to people and deal with people

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. He taught me so , so , so

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, so much . So I began to

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learn from him at an early age and

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then , from that point , transitioning and

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let's be honest , you're going to only learn so

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much from certain people . That's

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just being straight up . You're not going to learn everything

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from your father . You're not going to learn everything from your parents

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, your grandparents . So don't think that you are . You

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have to invest in yourself . And so what I

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did ? I began to start investing

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in myself , and that's something my father instilled in me also

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. He was like , son , you got to climb the ladder

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, you can't just stay here , you got to keep going

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. And so I invested in myself

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. I would take all type of leadership conferences

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. I would go to leadership seminars

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, travel all over the country . I would

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play for the plane ticket myself , go

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over here and pay for the gas myself

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. Me and my wife would drive to this country . Like

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that's called investing in yourself . I don't

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know how much money I spent on books . I

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don't know how much money I spent on books , you and me both . Yes

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, we lost count , I don't know how

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much I spent on books , but there's one individual

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by the name of Dr Miles

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Monroe and he passed away also

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I think it was 2016 if I'm not mistaken

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but he was a

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great mentor . I purchased

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so much of his stuff seminars

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and CDs and books and things like

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that and he was such a great mentor , spiritually

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and leadership wise , management

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wise I mean the whole nine yards

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. So that's another person that really

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helped me out and his legacy

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lives on because I still buy his books , I still

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watch all of his videos and I don't even know

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how many times I watched them . I'm serious

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like 50 and 100 and 200 times . I

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hit you , not so , but Dr

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Miles Monroe was a great inspiration

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to me and was still a great inspiration

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to me , along with my father also Awesome

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, thank you .

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I mean I'm really happy . I mean I serve on an

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organization called the South Carolina Center

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for Fathers and Families , so I'm a huge advocate

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for fathers being connected to their families

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, being role models of their families , being in their communities

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and really helping younger people

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make the connection . So I'm happy that your dad

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did that for you . That's a really great story . I love

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it and I'm really passionate about that part

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of us showing up as men and fathers and role models

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and then investing in paying for tickets and

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paying for gas . Oftentimes we want

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to get better and we sometimes

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plan our vacation better than we plan our professional

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development . And

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I tell people I say , yeah , I hear you got this vacation together

16:10

. Tell me about what you're going to do this

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year for your personal development , and

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I haven't thought about it . Yeah , so let's

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balance that , so you continue to take those vacations

16:19

because it's important for you In

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an organization . A lot of leaders at this time

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are having this

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difficulty with trusting

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organizations . You're running

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an organization and you can't run an

16:33

organization successfully without trusting people in your

16:35

organization . How did you get to the place ? Your brand

16:37

, your name ? You've lost it . You rebuilt it . You've

16:39

got it , it belongs . What do you do to make

16:41

sure that you build trust with the people that are out

16:43

there really building your brand

16:46

every day and living up to your standards

16:48

every day , and they're in front of your customers every day ? How

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did you get to a place where you knew it couldn't

16:52

be you and you had to trust them ? What did you

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do so you can trust people more ?

16:56

Yeah , so what

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I did is , first of all , again investing

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in yourself , and learning qualities as a leader

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is important , and that's some of the things that I was taught

17:06

how to build things

17:08

like that and how to trust others . But

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, to answer your question , one of the things

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, personally , that I did is

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so not only do you have to invest in yourself

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, but guess what you got to invest

17:20

in your people also .

17:23

Let me say so . You want me to pay them and

17:25

pay for them to go somewhere . Is that what you're suggesting

17:27

? You give them a salary and help them get better

17:29

.

17:29

Listen , you got to do what you got to do , but

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to be 100% transparent

17:34

, yes , yes , and

17:36

sometimes it's not all about

17:38

paying for them to go somewhere else which you

17:40

do need to do that also but it's

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also about you taking what

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you have and spending quality

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time with them . That's one of the traits

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that I still do with all of my

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people right now , today , and

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I'm talking about on an individual basis

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. We have group sessions , we

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have meetings , we have internal

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trainings , but I

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spend time with

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every single one of them one

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on one , and

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I'm a tab that the knock knock for everybody

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is important for you

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to spend time with the people that are actually

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helping you get done what you want

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to get done .

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Yes , so once you move into a leadership role , people

18:22

want to be seen , people want to be heard , people want to be

18:24

valued , people want to be respected , and

18:26

there's no better way than to spend time

18:28

with them . Yes , so spend

18:30

time with your team intentionally

18:32

, build it in , just like you spend time at all

18:35

the other things that's relevant to you . It can't

18:37

just be about your bottom line of your profit margins

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. Yes , your profit margins can't won't be

18:41

what they can be if you don't take care of your team

18:43

. Spend time with your team .

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Yes , and I tell people run you

18:47

, take care of your people . Your people will take care of

18:49

you Absolutely and in all ways

18:51

. It's not all about just you want

18:53

to just have formal sessions with you

18:55

, always talking about the business and training

18:57

. Yes , you do all type of things . We go on

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trips , we go to a top golf , we go

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to restaurants and I'm I

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got the bill . Like you , can't expect them

19:06

to have the bill . Yes , I have the bill

19:08

, I pay , and some cases I pay

19:10

for them to travel to certain

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places . If we're going to Florida for

19:14

internal company event , guess what

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? I don't expect for them to pay to get to Florida

19:19

. I pay for the two . Get to

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Florida , pay for everything .

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Yes , I'm not going to let the people on my team listen to Cedric . They've

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been in jump ship and been with us driving trucks . Hey

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, ron , you got to change how you doing business . Cedric

19:30

over there doing this , I said don't y'all listen to Cedric , I'm

19:33

seeing it out in Georgia . I

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know that's right . So , cedric , I'm going

19:38

to shift a little bit . I want to shift to the other side of this . So

19:40

, business side , you've had your challenges . You've recovered

19:42

from those . You're running an effective team . You're

19:44

investing in yourself . How do you balance

19:47

your professional life as an entrepreneur

19:49

with your family ? Yeah , how

19:51

do you make sure that's well balanced , because it can be a lot of

19:53

hours . It's very , very time intensive

19:56

to be an entrepreneur . How do you balance

19:58

that for your family ?

19:59

Yeah , so my operation

20:01

works like this . In a nutshell , the

20:04

book stops with me , I am

20:07

the owner , I am the CEO , but

20:10

I have what we call

20:12

a CEO

20:14

part two , and that's just my own thing

20:16

. Yes , your language , yes , yes , I

20:19

mean , I have that in place and

20:21

I have a trusted individual that

20:24

, regardless if

20:26

I'm taking off for one day or

20:29

if I'm taking off for a Long

20:31

trip I mean me and my wife just got back from Hawaii

20:33

not long ago , just a couple of days

20:35

ago , or whatever and I'm

20:38

able to go on that trip and stay as long as I won't

20:40

because I have that CEO . Part

20:42

2 is what I like to call it . Yes , that person

20:44

can handle the ship because

20:47

I have talked that person how

20:49

to handle the ship . So that's one thing

20:51

, and this may be the most important

20:53

thing and I know it's an arguable point

20:55

, but it may be the most important thing you

20:58

have to have an

21:00

off button . You

21:04

Use it . I'm

21:09

serious , you .

21:12

Absolutely . You got to disconnect a self-help

21:15

mental health .

21:16

Oh those things are relevant .

21:17

I like it until a race car track , if you

21:19

will , for everyone that's listening . That car can be in the

21:22

lead , running 200 laps , 300

21:24

miles an hour , but they got to go to the pit stop

21:26

. It's mandatory that they go to the pit stop to

21:28

get refuel , refitted tires , all

21:30

the things the driver got to get Rehydrated

21:32

. So if a race car driver knows

21:34

running the car that they can't make all

21:36

500 laps at one time and they got to go to the pit

21:38

stop intentionally built , you must have

21:40

a pit stop , that's right , you must , so

21:43

you can get back to where you need to be at

21:45

, so you can run your company . So , leaders , I hear

21:47

you , I got it . I know you got to get it done . You

21:49

must have a pit stop . You got to take

21:51

a break or you will break . Yes

21:54

no good to your company if you're broke .

21:56

That's exactly right . And I also tell

21:59

people when I'm , you know , speaking with them

22:01

about leadership and speaking engagements

22:03

and things like that , one of the things I tell people . We

22:05

use that a lot

22:08

with Vacation

22:10

and it's cool . But you got to

22:12

use it with everything . Like sometimes

22:15

I just take a day off , I Call

22:17

my people , be like , listen , I'm not coming

22:19

to the office , you guys handle

22:21

it . If something catch fire

22:24

, call me . Other than that , you know Bargaming

22:28

. You got to use it for the small

22:30

things also . Sometimes , you

22:33

know , I know some of the things that my wife loves and so

22:35

I just take a day off and I'm like I'm gonna take

22:37

my wife to go and get this

22:39

item that she loved , I'm gonna go and get her

22:41

favorite steak , her favorite

22:43

sushi or whatever . We're gonna go just on a day

22:45

trip and I'll just do that . You gotta

22:48

have a switch that you can turn on . I mean

22:50

, you got to and it's not just a big

22:52

vacation things , it's gotta be for

22:54

the small things also and events and

22:56

stuff like don't miss your kids Basketball

22:59

game or baseball game and don't get me wrong , we can't

23:01

make everything , but make sure

23:03

you are there , because you can't get those

23:05

things back . But you gotta first

23:07

have that off switch and you've got to

23:09

use it .

23:11

Yes , yes , please make sure that

23:13

you're taking care of the people that allow you

23:15

to do the work that you're doing . And if you invest

23:17

that's not what I've learned over time said it gives . If you

23:19

go to those games , if you show up into

23:21

those events when you got to work , they

23:23

won't interrupt you . But if

23:25

I don't do those things , it's when you're

23:27

trying to get work done . You've missed the game , you've missed

23:29

the anniversary , you've missed a small thing . That's

23:31

when they're interrupting because they're feeling

23:33

neglected , not seen , and you're always working . So

23:36

give them their time and when you're at work

23:38

, they'll give you your time . So please

23:40

do that effectively so you can go across the board . So

23:42

I said you shared a lot of stuff as

23:44

we begin to wrap it up for us , when you

23:46

think about , like , what would you leave

23:48

? What are three tips or three things ? You say , hey

23:51

, in your role , if you're entrepreneur , or

23:53

your husband , or you're in a community , just

23:55

leadership in general , what are three things that's

23:57

helped you become better as a leader ? What

23:59

would you show the audience ?

24:01

Whoo , listen , that's easy for me . That's

24:03

easy for me . So three things I want to leave

24:05

with people . That has helped me tremendously

24:08

and I also Tell other

24:10

people this and teach other people this also knowledge

24:13

, understanding and wisdom . And

24:15

I'll break it down real quick , the short versions Again

24:18

, you have to invest in yourself . You got to get

24:20

knowledge . What is knowledge ? Knowledge is information

24:23

that you're gaining

24:25

, that you're getting . Don't wait on someone to

24:27

get it for you . Don't wait on your parents

24:29

to give it to you . Don't wait on your aunt , your grandparents , don't

24:31

wait on that . University or college and universities

24:34

are great , but you got to take

24:36

action yourself . You

24:38

know , invest in yourself . Self education

24:40

is best education . So knowledge

24:42

is gaining that information and getting that information

24:45

. You got to get understanding , because

24:47

if I have the knowledge and I don't understand

24:49

it , it means nothing thing

24:51

. Understanding

24:54

basically means that I comprehend

24:56

the information and the knowledge

24:58

that I have attained . And

25:00

then the last thing is Wisdom

25:03

. Wisdom is when you take the

25:05

knowledge , you take the understanding

25:08

and you apply it to yourself

25:11

and to your life . And

25:14

if you want to see a change , I

25:16

promise you if you did those

25:18

things , self educate yourself

25:21

, get knowledge , understanding the wisdom . I promise

25:23

you , things will change in

25:25

your life . Soon and

25:27

quick .

25:28

Yes , yes , thank you so much . A lot

25:30

of great nuggets . He's built the company multiple

25:33

times . He's built the team . I'm family

25:35

man and taking care of and enjoying trips and taking care

25:37

of his team . So , sadrick , I know you're in the

25:39

trucking industry . Can you give us a name of your company

25:41

and how people can reach your organization should they

25:43

desire to look further into your services ?

25:46

Yeah , so our trucking services company

25:49

is just like my name , is Cedric

25:51

legged calm , llc

25:54

, and you can go to Facebook and find

25:56

us . Just type it in . It'll pull it up on Facebook

25:58

. You can find us on YouTube . You can

26:00

find us on Instagram . You can go to

26:02

Google just type in my name and

26:04

it will bring it up . But the website

26:07

is just like my name Cedric legged

26:09

calm , ced , our , I see K

26:11

, l , egg , ett

26:14

, calm . If you go to my website , it'll

26:16

take you , like all the different places . Facebook

26:19

is Facebook calm forward

26:21

slash . Cedric legged

26:24

C . Oh , oh , yeah , no , in order to

26:26

take you right to the site , or again , you can just type

26:28

it in on Google . But we're real

26:30

easy to find and you can reach out to us for

26:32

any type of help . You can schedule calls with us

26:34

, with my sales team , and we can help

26:36

you out with different things that we do . As

26:39

far as different services that we offer .

26:41

Awesome , awesome , serious . It's been a phenomenal

26:43

a great information , had a

26:45

great time with you Some laughter , talked about some

26:47

serious things , but had fun with it and thank

26:49

you for your transparency and your openness to be

26:51

able to have the conversation about where you've been and

26:53

how you've gotten to where you are Again , for

26:55

everybody that's with us . On Unpack , with Ron

26:58

Harvey , we release a new podcast every

27:00

single Monday with a new guest from around

27:02

the globe . That's sharing and being transparent

27:04

and hopefully we're adding value to you and

27:07

your journey on leadership . Here's what I will tell

27:09

you Be a lifelong learner about

27:11

your personal growth and development . Never

27:13

, ever , get comfortable that you know enough . The

27:15

world is changing too fast . It's going to continue

27:18

to change , which means you've got to continue to learn

27:20

. So thank you for joining us and we appreciate

27:22

it , and until next time , cedric and I will call a close

27:24

to this particular podcast and thank y'all

27:26

for joining us and we will release another podcast

27:28

next Monday .

27:30

Well , we hope you enjoy this edition

27:33

of Unpack podcast with

27:35

leadership consultant Ron Harvey

27:37

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27:44

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27:47

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27:49

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27:51

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27:54

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