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High Speeds, Leadership, and People-Centered Business with Tim Hafner

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Life can feel like this sometimes, speeding at 120+ miles an hour with everything a blur and your heart racing.

Sometimes it’s life that flies by you. And sometimes it’s you that speeds past everything else.

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At Fishtail Riding School, Tim Hafner provides this experience for the speed-hungry population.

He joins us on our show this week to share about his motorcycle riding school located in New England – how he got started and the important perspective he has on his students.

Tim’s background as a fighter pilot, a commercial airline pilot, a middle school teacher, and a campus minister has interestingly enough equipped him with what he has needed to start Fishtail Riding School and be a riding instructor.

In this episode we talk about:

  • People-centered business: students feel the difference between feeling like you’re trying to empty their wallet versus feeling like you are trying to maximize their experience
  • Weaknesses and strengths: giving other people and team members a chance at what they’re good at
  • Leadership: if you’re doing a good job as a leader, it should have as much impact as taking your hand out of a bucket of water
  • The balance of work and play: recapture the love! recapture the passion for what you do!
  • Qualifiers of having a great business: something you love (won’t be for the money), run with passion, focus on the people, sacrifice to give the best possible customer experience, letting success percolating out from those things

    • Gather round the fire for a great story and lots of wisdom!

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