Sean: How do you prevent the power of being a leader from getting to your head? Alright, this is about ego.

Le-an: Yeah, that goes back to the beginning of my story of like - when I became CEO, I was 20 years old when I became CEO. And I let the power go into my head immediately, and I had to be brought down also immediately. Basically, the fastest way to do that is to realize that you are not the person anymore who is going to create the results. You're actually the support now for the people who are creating the results. So that's the biggest thing that I still carry to this day is that I am only as good as the people that I support that I work with. That was the one that brought me down of realizing, 'oh, no, yeah, I might have been this amazing employee when I was still the employee. But now that I'm the leader, I can't think that way anymore. It's going to hurt me more and it's going to hurt other people as well.

Le-an: So that was the biggest one of like, I was no one, that was kind of the thought in my head. I was really no one. I became CEO. Yes, because of hard work, but I still had a lot more to grow and improve. And also just keep that in mind of like - I can only be or the company can only be as successful as the people that I work with and the people I support.

Sean: That's very good. And we have a lot of things in common, how we think and our weaknesses. So there were points in my leadership when it gets to my head, especially when people are just straight up going against the tide, you know, it ticks me off. So those are the times that I snap and it gets to my head and I just tell them off. I'm more of a straight shooter, so I could really pierce some people and upset them with my words. And those are the times that I would say, if I could turn back time and change them, I would change them and handle it very differently.

Sean: And you're right in saying that if you realize that a CEO, the endgame is you're going to be helping your people and serving them rather than you being served rather than you doing the work. Then that really changes your perspective and helps you to realize that, 'Oh, okay, if I let this get into my head, I'm going to be doing this all my life until the day I die. I'm going to be working like a horse.' And that's not the future that I desire. Right? So we have to change and adapt and humble ourselves there.

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