Justin joins me on the podcast to talk about personal development and the benefits too investing in your self. Not only is he passionate about helping organizations figure out how to invest in their people but is also passionate about helping individuals find what truly gets them excited everyday.

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[00:00:00] Justin: [00:00:00] You have to own the personal disciplines. Of your personal life daily. if I'm not taking care of my personal self daily, then I can't possibly take care of my team. I'm going to be a little disheveled. I'm going to be a little disorganized. And so own it daily kind of encompasses, clarifying the win, executing the win, celebrating and evaluating your performance and your people and your numbers.

it's refusing to be offended. It's using the simple, direct, respectful communication. It's removing issues daily. All of the own it daily comes into one line called success, loves discipline. [00:01:00] 

Keerstyn: [00:01:10] Welcome to the podcast, Justin. I am really excited that you're here today. Do you want to just give us a brief intro of how you got involved in your work and then what you do now for your clients?

Justin: [00:01:20] Yeah. So I was, I've always been like a, an athlete and kind of, as I got out of college, I played a little college basketball, so I've always been a coach personality and just had, I think entrepreneurship in my genes. Cause when I was 23, I'm a, I retired early from college and so I went into Edward Jones.

They offered me an opportunity to pick it office anywhere in the country. And I kinda cut my teeth on really. Building relationships with high performing individuals that had a lot of wealth. And I just had a blast building relationships, but I'd rather have a case of gout than actually do portfolio reviews.

[00:02:00] And After I left Edward Jones, they had offered me a limited partnership. I went into my brother and I started a character and leadership youth mentoring program. And it just exploded. We went from, I think, five volunteers to, 300 coaches is going into public schools impacting. 3000 students a week and we were teaching five core values.

So I was the business guy of that nonprofit. My brother was the curriculum and the coach, the head coach leading the students and the coaches. And that's when I just realized, man, I had a passion to build team and about seven years in to launching that nonprofit called five star life. I just knew I had to get back into the marketplace.

And so I started my own leadership training company in 2012 called entree legacy group. So that's how I got here and what I do on a daily basis. I, any given day, I'm working with, 20 to 30 different. leadership teams and I'm helping them [00:03:00] implement, the entrepreneurial operating system.

I've been doing a lot of keynote speaking. I'm just passionate about teams and I'm passionate about growing 

Keerstyn: [00:03:07] things. Awesome. Yeah, that's a great background. That's really cool that you started that nonprofit and really found a passion for coaching people and helping. People and organizations grow.

Absolutely. Awesome. So yeah, one of the things that Justin does, that's really unique, he is he has the six practices for successful leaders. Do you want a quick run through what all seven are? and then we can dive deeper into them. 

Justin: [00:03:32] Yeah, so real quick, these seven practices of great leaders, it of came from I'm up.

I'm a really simple guy, Kiersten. And so for me to grab a hold of something, it had to be simple and it had to be repeatable and had to be actionable. so for me, the first three practices are what I would call. blocking and tackling, like it's just foundational practices, every single team and [00:04:00] every single individual needs to apply to their life or their business.

So the first one is clarify the win. Whatever you're doing, you have to clarify it. What do you want? And obviously when I'm working with EOS, we have the vision traction organizer, and there's really eight questions you have to answer. But at the end of the day, you got to clarify the win. What do you want?

And once you know what you want, the second practice is you have to execute, right? And the, when so many people are too busy doing. A hundred different things and they're going like quarter inch deep and they're not executing in the vein, in the activity. That's actually going to get them a result they're just busy and they don't know how to separate effective, active work from the, from the minutia.

And so executing that is huge. The third practices celebrate an event, how you weight the win. So how many teams are starving for. Their boss to recognize [00:05:00] them or their, the department had to recognize their performance. So you've got to celebrate those victories on the same side. On the other side, the coin though, celebrating and evaluating are two sides of that same coin.

If you're a leader that does not know how to evaluate or you don't like confrontation, or you're not willing to put the real numbers in front of people, you can't evaluate failure. And so for me, winning or losing, I want to be evaluating performance. So those are the first three practices. And the last, I think the last four, what I would call.

The emotional IQ practices or the momentum building practices. And this is where, you might have great goals, have great disciplines. Maybe you know how to look at the numbers and face reality, but you suck at dealing with people. And so these four 

Keerstyn: [00:05:52] practices 

Justin: [00:05:54] are what I call, the first, the fourth practices, USD, our communication uses.

[00:06:00] Simple direct, respectful communication. And then if you're willing to be super direct and very respectful, then you need to also practice five is refuse to be offended. So many cultures are toxic because people get offended in a wedge. It gets built or a brick wall gets built between you and them. And now you're dead to me and I'm not willing to run through a brick wall all for you because you've offended me and I have not gotten.

No for that offense and offense over time erodes the relationship and it creates apathy, bitterness, and people don't understand that offense is a toxic killer. It's the beginning of a toxic culture. The sixth practice is pretty simple. Remove the ripple, every company, every person we have issues, whether they're personal relational issues or whether [00:07:00] they're performance issues or whether they're process issues, but companies are ripe with issues.

Cause we're a bunch of people working together, And the best teams solve issues. And then lastly, Probably my favorite practice is just recognizing you have to own it daily. The turtle wins the race, the, in that little book, the childhood book, 

Keerstyn: [00:07:24] a 

Justin: [00:07:25] rabbit, because it's this methodical disciplined.

Daily grinding. You've just got to own it daily. And so I've made my line is success, love, discipline. And if you don't love discipline, you will never find the success that you really want. So that kind of wrapped up these seven practices of great leaders. 

Keerstyn: [00:07:51] Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad that you wal...