Brittany Lewis [00:00:00]:
I think, for me, work doesn't stop. I mean, there's still other people that are not affected in our area, and the show must go on. I mean, yes, we are dealing with a lot here, but there's still other people out there that it's not affecting their everyday life, and they still need help with their business and other things or, like, something's happening with the software or I. They need a question answered. So as long as my phone is working and I'm able to respond to people, like, I just feel as work goes on and our jobs don't change.
Robin [00:00:43]:
This is secrets for success. Welcome to the Secrets for Success podcast. I'm your host, Greg Todd. Thank you, as always, for joining me. Thank you, guys for being here.
Andrew [00:00:53]:
Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having us.
Greg [00:00:55]:
Wonderful. Thank you, people, for listening. Great. Okay, you can't say anything to me, all right? Seriously, I'm here with my team. I'm here with Brittany and Andrew. You guys already know them. And these last two weeks, we've had a lot going on here in our community. And today's podcast, I don't know what the title I'm going to make it, but I was thinking about this this morning, and it's like, how to handle, um, uh, times of adversity, the team's perspective.
Greg [00:01:24]:
If you guys listen to me, I'm assuming you listen to the podcast, uh, you probably listen to me on other platforms. You know, what has been going on in my area. Uh, we've just, um, gone through two storms within a two week span. Uh, the first storm, uh, absolutely devastated, uh, the barrier islands, uh, my community that I live in. Uh, and. And you guys were affected by that storm as well. But the second one, you guys were affected even more. And it's been at the first really near direct hit for the tent bay area in 103 years.
Greg [00:02:00]:
So, with that said, you know, we've. The show must go on, right? And people have heard my kind of perspective on it, and I've been pretty open about the lows and the highs and all the other stuff, but we haven't really heard your guys perspective on it. And, you know, I think there's this. There's this thought out there like, that there's no good work anymore, and people don't work hard, and people don't care, and da da da da da. And over the last three weeks, I haven't experienced that. I've actually experienced people that have lifted me up. Even though you're going through basically the same thing, maybe we've lift each other up, I don't know. But basically I wanted to get your perspective on, you know, everything that's been going on.
Robin [00:02:49]:
Now with that said, I want to just kind of do one more, kind of, kind of lay the foundation. We just did an event. All right. So it wasn't like work as usual. We only do three events a year, at least at the time of this recording. We do two challenges and we do one live event. So it's a big deal. And so we just went through an event and really didn't miss a beat throughout the event.
Robin [00:03:15]:
And with the clients that we're currently still working with, I mean, maybe a couple rescheduling stuff here or there, but for the most part, like nothing has changed.
Jess [00:03:23]:
So that happened in between both storms.
Robin [00:03:27]:
That have been happening. Yeah.
Jess [00:03:29]:
The week after the storm and the week before the other storm.
Robin [00:03:32]:
Yeah.
Jess [00:03:32]:
So it was right smack dag at the stop.
Robin [00:03:35]:
So I would like to hear from the both of you kind of your perspective on, you know, work. What? Like just your mindset. Yeah. Just, I just want to, I just want to hear from you. So who wants to start?
Andrew [00:03:50]:
Go ahead, Rooney.
Jess [00:03:51]:
Okay. I think for me, work doesn't stop. I mean, there's still other people that are not affected in our area and the show must go on. I mean, yes, we are dealing with a lot here, but there's still other people out there that it's not affecting their everyday life and they still need help with their business and other things or like something's happening with the software or they need a question answered. So as long as my phone is working and I'm able to respond to people, like, I just feel as work goes on and our jobs don't change.
Robin [00:04:32]:
So let me ask you this. Do you guys feel, and I'll direct this question to you, how much do you feel like your role matters? Because. Yeah, I think, I think that's the big thing. I think it's like when you feel like what I do matters and there are so many people that are counting on me. It's not just Greg. It's like I have clients, I have people that are counting on me and they need me. So I can't just shut it down. Like, and so, like, how much does that play a role? I feel like a lot of people feel like what they do doesn't really matter.
Robin [00:05:08]:
Like if I show up, I show up. I don't show up. Like, whatever. I'm replaceable. Like, none of you are replaceable and not just to me, which I do feel that's the case. But also, like, people lean on you. I feel like people lean on you guys more than they lean on me in many instances. So.
Robin [00:05:26]:
So how much did that play a part?
Jess [00:05:28]:
I mean, it played an enormous part. I mean, I, at that point, was not thinking about me and my family. I was thinking about the other people. And am I gonna be able to still help them in the state that we're going through right now?
Robin [00:05:44]:
Right.
Jess [00:05:45]:
Because with Helene, we didn't get affected that much. Like, yes, we lost power for several days. We did not get flooding like you did, and had to deal with all of that stuff. We didn't have it that bad. So for me, I still had Internet because we have a generator. We were able to plug in our wifi and everything like that. So, like, I was still able to work. I was not that affected.
Jess [00:06:11]:
And then trying to get ready for the event in the midst of all of the storm and then with Andrew, I remember we were on, all three of us were on a slack huddle. You got off first because you lost power, and then about 20 minutes later, I lost power.
Robin [00:06:28]:
Great.
Jess [00:06:29]:
So I called Andrew, and he's like, should we just wait until all this? I was like, nope, just make the challenge free. Move everything over to free. Like, you still have power. Let's just move forward with it. Like, we don't have time to waste with this, and we have to just pivot and change. So that's what we did. And then not too much longer, he lost power. So we were able to still get some things done before the worst of it came.
Jess [00:06:54]:
And then we had our event, and then we had the next storm hit. And that one, I think, affected all of us a little bit more. So in that time, it's really just, again, it's not really thinking of myself and our situation. Like, we're extremely blessed that we have a house that's still standing, that we have a generator. Yes. It was like hunger games trying to get gas, but. But we had a place, like, we actually have a camper that my husband found an adapter that we can live in our camper with ac and be able to cook. Like, that is a blessing.
Jess [00:07:33]:
Like, I will never complain about losing power or anything like that because other people lost their freaking homes. Like, their homes are gone. Everything that they ever owned was gone in a flash, like, and I just am not going to let my situation affect how we help others.
Robin [00:07:56]:
What's your take on it? Here, here, let me exit this as well. You can give me your take, but also at any point did you contemplate and consider that maybe we should postpone and hold off?
Andrew [00:08:09]:
No, I didn't think we needed to postpone the challenge. We already put so much work into it, and I think just our mindset as a team and what you've created is, like, we'll find a way to make it work, right? We'll figure it out one way or another. We have a great team here, and not just us three. Shout out to everyone that's virtual, from our VA team to Amber to Dre, to just anyone, Ben and Michelle. So it's how powerful that we all pick up the pieces because they even knew. Okay. We know you guys are out of power. What do you guys need? So I think, like, what we have here is amazing.
Andrew [00:08:55]:
So, like, that wasn't on my mind at all just. Cause, like, we always find a way to make it work.
Robin [00:09:02]:
Right.
Andrew [00:09:03]:
And so there's just a lot of pivots. Just in general business, like, when we have events, you just have to make changes last minute, like, a lot of changes. And then when you throw not one, but two hurricanes on top of it, just a lot of things. And so, yeah, so I don't. I don't think we need to shut things down. Like Brittany said, and like you said, like, I was affected a lot more on the second hurricane of just, like, kind of more like, oh, crap. Like, you know, having to, you know, you evacuated. Yeah.
Robin [00:09:37]:
Yeah.
Andrew [00:09:37]:
So evacuating, doing all that trying to do stuff in between, just know how important that is not just for us, the company, but, like, what we do for not just our clients, but our potential clients or the people that we served during that event is just so powerful. And I think that's, you know, having that bigger vision of being able to help potential people coming into our world, our active clients that we have now as well, like, they still need help. Like, 95 plus percent of people that we serve aren't. Weren't affected at all by the hurricane.
Robin [00:10:11]:
Right.
Andrew [00:10:11]:
So it's just knowing that and, you know, like, didn't go the way we wanted, you know, afterwards, because usually after the event, there's certain things that we have to do afterwards, and, like, none of that really happened. But, you know, at the end of the day, like, things fall. The chips fall with it. They fall. And, you know, we're. I think, as a company, we're grateful for how that turned out despite everything.
Jess [00:10:36]:
And we have to make the best of it, too.
Andrew [00:10:38]:
Yeah.
Jess [00:10:38]:
Like, in any situation, we need to just make the best of it and move forward.
Robin [00:10:43]:
Yeah. So I think there's a few things. I mean, one of the first things is the fact that both of you feel as though what you do really, really matters, and you feel like the people that you serve, you're serving them in a way that other people aren't able to serve them. So I feel like what all three of us felt was there really is no option. Even 50% of us is better than 0%, and. And if we don't do it well, who's going to do it? And the reality is that, like, nobody is going to do it in the way that we do it, and it's. And we were able to help a good chunk of people. Now, just for context, it was our smallest challenge we've ever done.
Robin [00:11:32]:
Our launch did not go the way that our challenges usually go, but I feel like the week of the challenge, we were able. The week of the event, it was a five day event for those of you that weren't part of it, we were able to serve people in the same way that we always serve. And so I think the first thing that I want to say to those of you that are listening is, and we did a event in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and it was the second day of the event. We had kind of like a barbecue thing, you know, out on my patio, and people were, you know, our clients were discussing how hard it is to find good help, and da da da. And I got really defensive. I'm like, don't. Don't tell me that. I was like, like, you.
Robin [00:12:14]:
What you have to do when you're having people, they got to feel like what they do matters. And not just feel it. It's because it does. Like. And so I feel like not just you all, I know you guys are a representation of the rest of the team. Amber, Dre, and, you know, Ben and Michelle, you know, Audra, Rodrigo, and whatnot. But what you guys do matters. It matters a lot.
Robin [00:12:40]:
And, yes, we have a lot of things going on, but we can't let down the mission, you know? And so I just want to say thank you for that.
Jess [00:12:51]:
Well, you play a big role in that, too. I mean, you're a big reason why we love what we do and that we do feel appreciated and, you know, respected and everything. So that's a huge thing. But also, our community is amazing. I mean, our community understands. We've had to make some pivots and stuff, you know, just because of power and all the things that we're dealing with. And nobody batted an eye. They said no problem.
Jess [00:13:16]:
But we're just like, okay, we have to get back to normal schedule. We have to just get back to the calls and everything, like, despite of what happening. So our community is also amazing. They see what we bring to the table, so they actually brought it to the table this time.
Robin [00:13:32]:
Right. I think there's another big thing, too. What happens when something doesn't go the way that you expected it to go? Like, I'm just thinking of the early days, like, with my clinic. Right. I'd have, like, an open house, or I would, you know, try to go to, like, another business or whatnot and thinking I was gonna have, like, a big turnout, you know, and then I go, and at the workshop, nobody shows up, you know, or I have all this stuff planned, and one person shows up, and you're just like, right. And I see so many people where when it doesn't turn out the way that they were expecting it to turn out, their energy, everything that they have goes down. And again, it's. The show must go on.
Robin [00:14:17]:
I'm letting you all know on this podcast, this was our lowest attended challenge we have ever run. Was the energy any different?
Jess [00:14:26]:
Nope, not at all.
Robin [00:14:28]:
I felt like what we brought, and actually, the music worked this time, too. I mean, there's a little hissing sound. Right. But I felt like it was just as good, maybe. Probably better.
Jess [00:14:42]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:14:42]:
Right, yeah. And. And I'm saying that to the people that are listening, because it's amazing how if things don't go the way that they thought it was gonna go, their energy is a direct proportion to the result that they get.
Andrew [00:14:58]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:14:58]:
Is that the case for us?
Jess [00:14:59]:
No.
Andrew [00:15:00]:
No. Yeah. I think a lot of people, and I'm guilty of this, especially, like, early on of, you know, when I was, like, more entrepreneurship route and just tying so much of it to, like, the outcome that you. That you did, you put on.
Robin [00:15:17]:
Right.
Andrew [00:15:17]:
Yourself. And I think that's part of the biggest downfall for a lot of people, not just business, but just in life. Like, you're putting a certain expectation if it doesn't hit it, like, everything goes to crap.
Robin [00:15:28]:
Right, right. And so can I just tell you what my mindset was? You know, through it for me, I look at everything as practice. I look at everything as practice. I was like, no matter how, if there was one, two, three, I told you before, I thought I said we'd have probably 30, 35 people on, and.
Jess [00:15:46]:
I was like, nope, we're gonna have more than that.
Robin [00:15:48]:
Yeah. I was like, we have 30, 35 people. So just, you guys know, like, context. Like, we're usually doing these challenges where we have, you know, a 1000, 1502 thousand people sign up. Usually we'll have about ten to 20% of those people show up. So I think our lowest one, maybe is on the first day, maybe 250. Our highest one, like, close to 400. This one, we barely cracked 100.
Robin [00:16:12]:
Right. But it didn't matter, because to me, I'm like, 100 people in a room is a lot of people. 50 people in a room is a lot of people. Five people in a room, to me, is a lot of people. Whoa. I got five people that are willing to listen to me. So, in my mind, and I'm so grateful of all. All the, like, times when things sucked so bad and I had no one and I trained myself that the show always goes on regardless.
Robin [00:16:41]:
Even if there was no one, I would still have gone through the entire challenge. But what I would have done is I would have done the evergreen version. That's it. And I would have just done it on replay. And I've been trained to just temper my expectations. It's a hard thing as an entrepreneur that you've got to have the big vision. Like, come on, guys, we're going to do this. We're going to do this.
Robin [00:17:00]:
But then, at the same time, when it doesn't go that way, how do you have to temper your expectations and then still not let it drop your energy? So, anyways, I want to applaud both of you for not batting an eye, not showing, not bringing down your energy because of what the result, at least was on the front end. Right?
Andrew [00:17:19]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:17:21]:
The next thing I would like to talk about is something that I discussed a couple days ago in my Facebook group, and that was the power of an invincible business. And you kind of hinted on it a little bit, Britt, you said, I knew that. Yes. We're going through all this stuff, and I don't want to downplay what they went through. They went through a lot, especially in Milton. Y'all really got, like, just. Just hoodwinked on that one. Okay, but you're like, look, we've got people.
Robin [00:17:51]:
95%, you said this 1890 5% of our people are not dealing with this. And what I was explaining in the Facebook group was having an invincible business. Like, has our revenue really changed? No, just for context, you know, we. We were able to make, like, probably $60,000 in a week in between hurricanes. Like, in a week, okay. In a week from this. This event. And that's.
Robin [00:18:24]:
That's not great for us. We still made $60,000 right. That's great. Cool. Right? And, um. And so I'm saying that because we have an invincible business, it's not that. Look, look, I understand that our business is not above God, okay? I understand that I could be in a car accident today. We could all, you know, somebody coming here and shoot us up.
Robin [00:18:44]:
Hopefully they don't. That door is unlocked, by the way. Okay. But no, I understand that, like, things can happen, but a natural disaster couldn't take this out, right? I mean, he couldn't take it out.
Jess [00:18:58]:
That's why the work doesn't change, right?
Robin [00:19:00]:
It doesn't change. And so, and so I'm wondering, like, I'm just thinking of, like, cookie coconut down by the beach or haze or sweet sage. It's like they got destroyed and their customers lives got destroyed. So there is no business, at least at the current time.
Andrew [00:19:19]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:19:20]:
Whereas for us, we have a business that has a lot of resistance to these types of things that are going on. An invincible business to where, like, it didn't change the life for 95% of our customer base. So we still got paid by 95% of our customer base, even though, like, so much of our community's lives came to a halt.
Andrew [00:19:42]:
Right.
Robin [00:19:42]:
How does it feel to you all working in an invincible business model?
Jess [00:19:48]:
I think it's amazing. I think it's also a testament to our clients that see how we're functioning and working through this so that they know what they need to do. So I think it's not just us, because we know this business runs 24/7 but I think it shows our clients and our future clients what it takes to have this type of business. And we're not batting an eye with two hurricanes that came in, you know, first time ever that two hurricanes came, like, back to back like this. But our business didn't stop. And it's not going to stop. Like, there's, unless there is some freaking Internet cyber thing that takes us all out, that's the only time we would.
Robin [00:20:34]:
And that just takes everybody out there, that takes out the non invincible businesses and the invincible businesses because they can't take payment. And we can't take payment. Fine, then everybody's out.
Jess [00:20:44]:
So that's, that's the only thing is, like, I think it just proves why you need to have an invincible business, right? Because we were not needing to stop anything.
Robin [00:20:55]:
There was at one point, I don't remember if it was Saturday or Sunday. We don't need to say the person's name on here, but basically we're all like, kind of like dealing with hurricane fatigue at this point. I'm evacuated. I'm trying to head back. You guys are like, I think probably on day four without power at that point. And there was a, there was a message that came through from somebody's like, hey, I want to give you guys $5,000. Can my business partner be a part of this program? And I think I might have texted you, like, hey, can you answer that person? I don't know who it is. And we did, and then $5,000 just came to our account just like that.
Robin [00:21:36]:
And it was that simple. It was that simple because of what we did from before, because we have. And by the way, I didn't see that this person that said that, I didn't see them on any. I did not recognize them at any point in the challenge. But, you guys, we have the ability to give people value 24 hours a day, seven days a week. By the way, it's not just always a five day event. It's through our opt ins, it's through our email, it's through me. Doing Facebook Lives is just having a group that's just up and runs, and people can hear things and be like, oh, my gosh, that just hit me at that time and then want to actually work with you.
Robin [00:22:15]:
It's like the coolest thing in the world.
Jess [00:22:17]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:22:17]:
I mean, you talk about, you talk about having an insurance policy. That's like, the greatest insurance policy you can have. It's just having a model that works like that. So, anyways, do you have any other takes on it?
Andrew [00:22:27]:
Yeah, I think brittany hithenne from the business side of things, of, you know, why it's important to have an invincible business. And I know you've talked about that on, you know, other podcasts, things like that as well. And I think that's the big thing that we harp on as our business. And I think the other side of it, and I, we, you know, we're all in a group text messaging each other during the hurricane, things like that. And I, you know, you, which I get, like, it's hard to be on your side of things as, you know, the entrepreneur, and it's like, do we go back to work and try not to be, like, too insensitive about it, things like that? And I was just, like, I was kind of like, it really wasn't. I feel like wasn't that long, but it's just like, I'm just trying to recollect certain memories over the last two, three weeks, and I think certain parts are just missing, because it was kind of a blur.
Robin [00:23:19]:
Yeah.
Andrew [00:23:19]:
But I was like, yeah. So I was just like, yeah, I need to get back.
Robin [00:23:23]:
Okay. All right, let. Here. Okay. Let me set this up, because I want them to get some context with this. So the three of us are in a group chat. It was Sunday evening. I think I sent this.
Andrew [00:23:34]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:23:35]:
They still don't have power, and there's just so much going on. It's just very heavy. It's just very heavy, you know? And. And I know we have an invincible business, right? So I know that we don't have to go back to work, but I also know what work is to us.
Jess [00:23:56]:
Well, we don't have to go back to the office.
Robin [00:23:58]:
We don't have to go back to the office.
Jess [00:23:59]:
There are still things that need to.
Robin [00:24:01]:
Be done, and so I didn't want to make it mandatory, so I just said, let me reach out to these two before we talk to the rest of the team. And so I said, well, what do you guys want to do? Should we have our Monday meeting? And at was actually the first one to reach out and say, like, I'm going back now. Now that I'm thinking about it, he's probably.
Andrew [00:24:28]:
Like, four or five days. I don't have electricity. I don't have wi fi. I was like, let me. Let me. Let me go in.
Robin [00:24:34]:
But I also feel as though, at least to me, I wanted. I wanted you guys to say yes. Not for the meeting aspect, just more for us just to be able to be together. And so I say that to you all because, you know, it's in your best interest if you're going to have people that are working with you. First of all, let me just say this. It's in your best interest to have people working with you, okay? So that when one is down, the others are up, and others can. Can handle things. And I know that that's how we all feel about each other.
Robin [00:25:09]:
So it's like, look, man, if I. I got some stuff going on right now, y'all can. Y'all have my back, okay, cool. And that's how it is. It's kind of like this little triangle effect, you know? And I want to leave out the rest of the team, but we're here locally. Okay, so that's a great feeling. No, it's also a great feeling to know when all three of us are down. Like, we know that Dre was still able to do his thing, and Rodrigo is still able to do his thing, and, you know, Amber still had our back, and da da da da da.
Jess [00:25:35]:
And every day, you know, they were all like, what can we do? What can we do? And I remember texting you Friday after the storm, like, hey, I need an email from you for today. And I need three emails for you for next week.
Robin [00:25:49]:
And that was very good for me. It also was like, listen, man, you know. Cause you can start to feel sorry for yourself, you know? It's like, lost everything, lost all this stuff. Da da da da da. And it's like, hey, listen, come on, buddy. Get your crap together. Get me an email. And I gave it to you.
Jess [00:26:04]:
You did?
Robin [00:26:04]:
I did. I was like, okay, okay, I got it. I gotta write up emails, whatever.
Jess [00:26:08]:
Well, and then I could only do so much because my Internet was still very spotty because with Milton, it basically took down a lot of Internet companies. So the Internet was extremely spotty. It was very hard to get. And I remember Friday morning just being able to actually log on and, like, do a couple of things. I was like, okay, this is good. This is good. And that's why I was, like, texting you. And then it, like, it hit and I was like, I can't do anything.
Jess [00:26:36]:
So I had to walk you through the entire process.
Robin [00:26:38]:
Yeah.
Jess [00:26:38]:
Still screwed it up.
Robin [00:26:41]:
It's okay.
Jess [00:26:41]:
It's okay. You did, but it's fine. But I mean, that I could have just been like, okay, well, we can't send an email today. But we didn't. Like. It doesn't like. You were in Georgia. You had Wi fi.
Jess [00:26:54]:
You were good. You could do all the things. And all I had to do was walk you through it.
Robin [00:26:58]:
Yeah.
Jess [00:26:58]:
So that's what I'm saying. Where it doesn't. It doesn't matter what happened to us because the rest of the people out there are still looking at us like they still need help.
Robin [00:27:11]:
Right?
Jess [00:27:12]:
Like, they need help. They need. They need the value that we provide to them. So none of that stops.
Robin [00:27:16]:
I think the big thing that I want every single one of you to get away from this interview or this conversation that we're having is that mother nature and father time are undefeated. Mother Nature and father time will eventually get you. So the question is, is that when it does happen, what's going to happen.
Jess [00:27:34]:
To you will be something.
Robin [00:27:36]:
It's going to be something.
Jess [00:27:36]:
It is going to be something.
Robin [00:27:38]:
And so Mother Nature might be a hurricane for you. It might not. It might be a fire. It might be a storm. It might be massive outages in your area. It might be a cyber attack. We've seen it all happen. This year, we've seen it all happen.
Robin [00:27:57]:
We've seen people that have had to drop out of our programs because in a 45 minutes span, a cyber attack happened, and their business wasn't really invincible. Yeah, it wasn't set up. Like, it wasn't set up for them to be able to handle that. Right. So it's just a matter of time, right? And then there's father time. And father time has hit me probably three times in my career. Wherever. My body couldn't do it.
Robin [00:28:30]:
Right? My body couldn't do it for my clinics, my body couldn't do it. The time that I got Covid and I had to be hospitalized because I was having all the syncope episodes, you know? And the second time that I had all my autoimmune issues. Father time will eventually hit you. Father time's undefeated. Okay, so what will happen? Can you continue? Do you have a process to be able to make money? Do you have a process to where, hey, you know what? I have already given out so much value. Twenty four seven. And I have a way for people to come into my world 24/7 do you have a team of people? Do you have a team of people that care, that have your back? If not, like, you probably have some soul searching to do right now, you know, because mother Nature and father time are undefeated and they will always get you.
Andrew [00:29:20]:
Yeah.
Robin [00:29:22]:
All right, any final thoughts?
Andrew [00:29:25]:
I think the biggest thing, so I know, like, a lot of this conversation has been about your mother nature. Follow the time, which you just echo it up on, but I think just taking that even further, like, at the end of the day, life happens, even if it isn't, you know, mother nature. Like, stuff can happen with, like, relationships with your family, just. Just random things. Like your car could break down, you can get into an accident. Just anything can happen. And I think a lot of times, it's like, how you respond to that. Not to downplay anything that happened with us or any of those situations, but it's, like, have the time to process, grieve and things like that, but also being able to bounce back and how you respond to that, because life is going to life.
Andrew [00:30:14]:
And I think that's the biggest thing I've learned, just, you know, especially over the last few years and just even the last couple of weeks. I think that's what makes you, like, shows who you are as a person of, like, how you respond to adversity.
Robin [00:30:30]:
To adversity, yeah.
Andrew [00:30:31]:
And I think that's where it can break a lot of people, but it can make you to a whole other. Like, I think for a lot of people, like, it's gonna, you know, break a lot. It's broken a lot of people. But it's just like, Harold, can you rebuild from that? Not just a business, but from life, from personal aspects, spiritual self and all that?
Jess [00:30:52]:
Yeah. And I think you have to learn how to adapt to any situation and be a chameleon like, you have to. Because anytime something happens to me, I don't say this is happening to me, it's happening for me. And I need to figure out.
Robin [00:31:11]:
What.
Jess [00:31:11]:
Can I do to make this situation either better or work in my favor or just say, okay, that happened, that is now in the past. How do I move forward with this? Because you can stay in the past, but you ain't gonna go nowhere.
Robin [00:31:25]:
Right.
Jess [00:31:26]:
And that takes out a lot of people. And there is a lot of devastation with these storms, not just here in Florida and Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, shoot all the way up to Ohio and Virginia. And it's, these people still have to continue with their life. Like, every day keeps moving forward. That's it. So how are you going to respond to that? How are you going to move forward and say, okay, this happened to me and it really sucked, but what am I going to do to move forward?
Robin [00:32:00]:
Right. I wanted to do this episode and I asked, you know, the two of them, would you do this episode? Because I think many of you that are listening, you aren't doing the things that we just did. You are. You've created a best case scenario and your best case scenario is unrealistic. And that's the only way you can have success is if the best case scenario happens. And that usually is not the case. So plan for the worst case scenario. Yeah.
Jess [00:32:36]:
Move forward.
Robin [00:32:37]:
Right. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Right. And so when your best case scenario is the only way you're going to win, you pretty much have lost. We can predict you're going to lose. So. So then I know that. So I think that's one of the big things that I need you all to understand.
Robin [00:32:54]:
And unfortunately, we live in a world of where people can put only their highlights. So you will assume based on what you see projected that these people don't have any problems. They're not talking about their problems. Okay. We are. We are the very few that are, like, we're going to share with you. We share with you on this episode, numbers we share with you. We share with you everything.
Robin [00:33:21]:
Like, and I'm not going to hide that. I'm not just because I'm a coach, consultant, mentor, whatever. Like, no, I like, things don't go well for me, like, many times as well. You know what I mean? So. But it's how we respond to it. And then. So I think the first thing I want to tell you right now. Yes, you that's listening.
Robin [00:33:45]:
Is that the best case scenario? Is that the only. If that's the only way you can win, you are screwed. You are screwed because life will eventually. Life you. And as at said, it's. Doesn't have to be, you know, father time. Does every mother answer? It could be a relationship. If you.
Robin [00:34:01]:
If your boyfriend, your girlfriend breaking with you right now, you done for like a month. You don't. For. Some of y'all don't for a year, some of y'all gonna leave your business, right? This happens. This happens. This happens. Some happens to your kids, some absence to your dog. So, like, goodness gracious, like, you're out.
Robin [00:34:16]:
You're. You're just one life event away from losing. So you really got to ask yourself, how do I like bulletproof hot? Like. Like, not just how do I create an eventual business? How do I become more invincible? Like, how do I become more resilient? You know? So I think that's the first thing. And then some of you are probably saying, well, well, I am. All those things you said. I just don't have a team that could be like that. Well, then, well, then you know something.
Robin [00:34:44]:
Yeah. Because I do believe. I do believe that as a leader, your people feed off of you. They feed off of you. They feed off of, like, if you're just like, well, they're going to be as well. So, like, have you created an environment, a culture where people actually feel like their work is meaningful to where they want to try to figure it out? Or have you created an environment where people are like, screw it, great. This is a way out. This storms.
Robin [00:35:11]:
Okay. This is a way out. You know, so what have you created? And so anyways, that's what I want you all thinking about as you have listened to this and maybe go back and listen to this again. So I just want to end it by just saying I'm just really grateful and thankful for the both of you. Not just as what you do for the community and what you've done for this mission, but also just as friends. You know what I mean? It's really. It's really. It's really nice to go through these.
Robin [00:35:42]:
Not to go through the things, but it's nice to have people that, you know, genuinely like have your back and care for you.
Jess [00:35:48]:
Well, it has been great just to, like, you know, Andrew's checked. We've all checked on each other, and I think that that's very important with a team as well. And Amber, God bless her, she was, like, so worried about everybody. Like, after the fact, she's like, oh, my God, I was looking at this and looking at this, and I was so worried, but I didn't want to stress you out. I was like, I know, but she checked every day, and, yeah. And, you know, Dre, any way he could message, you know, me or Andrew or you, like he did. And that's very important in a team because we have each other's back.
Robin [00:36:23]:
Yeah. You guys, if you want to have people that work not only hard for you, but if, and I know as an entrepreneur, many of you are, you can't even sleep good because you're so afraid that your people are going to leave and this and that and da da da da da. And because of that, you don't want to give a lot to your people because you already feel like they've got 1ft out the door. Listen, let me tell you something. Create an environment. Create an environment where it's a family. Not saying people won't leave, people are going to leave. But if they do leave, you're happy for them because, you know, it might be a better thing for them because you actually truly love them.
Robin [00:37:00]:
But many times, they won't leave because they're like, I got my family. I ain't going anywhere. Either way, you win. So, anyways, I just want to say thank you to you all, and I hope this episode blessed those of you that were listening. So we'll see you on the next episode. Till next time.
