The Hope Strategy Podcast

Gabe Reid & Lessons From The NFL

Gabe Reid, a former NFL player discusses the start of his career training and playing college football, his transition into the NFL, struggles with injuries, his entrepreneurial parents and the role that they played in his own endeavors, and his hope for growth and opportunity in his home of American Samoa. Gabe's story is underpinned by the belief that "every experience teaches a lesson". This episode inspires both patience and grit in the face of opposition and difficulty.

Highlighted Quotes

"Jumping The Fence"

"When everyone would leave, and they would close the practice field, I would jump the fence and go and start hitting the bags and start catching, and I would drive the sledge because I wanted to get better. And that coupled with just trying to be the best person that you can be, and having a good work ethic... that's where I credit my success from."

"Lessons From Football"

There were certain experiences that I needed to learn through football, that were going to help set me up for the rest of my life... And I had a mindset of "look, it's okay, you're good enough to make it, and to reach your goals and to, to be successful." That's where I found peace knowing that I have to go through football to learn that lesson.

"Entrepreneurship Instills Hope"

"Maybe that's what my draw is to go back home… to tell them 'hey look I made in the NFL I do but there's more things that you can do' and I've chosen, or feel prompted to use entrepreneurship as the vehicle to instill hope, and to inspire and to hopefully change one life."

Resources/Mentions:

Bears Vs. Colts SuperBowl Game (Video)

Company

• PEM

Guest Links:

• Linkedin
• Instagram

Podcast Links:

• Instagram: @Hopestrategy
• Facebook: @hopestrategy
• Twitter: @thehopestrategy
• Youtube The Hope Strategy

Lo and Tanner Beeston share their insights as content creators and new parents on the Journey from their individual jobs to making a living full time as Influencers. They share their story of meeting during high school, Lo's start in Videography, their decision to move to Hawaii and the challenges they have faced to create both the life they want and their desire to be authentic as influencers. This episode is a focus on being genuine, positive and hard working even when others tell you to "stop trying" or "you won't make it".

Highlighted Quotes

"Authenticity"

"In the beginning I was so worried about "what are they going to think?" I would just try and hide little things... Until I started showing who I was and posting what I felt like I wanted to post and sharing what I wanted to share and forgetting about what other people thought... that's when I started seeing success."

"Being yourself"

"A few months ago we really had to sit down and just say… What is our main priority? Are we just trying to play catch up with the other thousand influencers that we look up to? Or are we actually doing what we love to do... and if they didn't exist would we still do what we're doing?."

"Choose your circle"

Nobody around me in Utah was anywhere near doing anything with Instagram… it was looked down upon, I almost felt like dumb if I let it shine. It was such a breath of fresh air coming out to Hawaii and not being made fun of when I went to take a picture for Instagram. I remember telling Tanner 'it's so cool that I can take a picture and not feel like somebody is judging me…' all I wanted to do was document our lives and make really cool videos and take these really cool pictures, and it was really cool to see that my friends were doing the same thing and was encouraging it instead of making me feel like it was dumb.

Resources/Mentions:

People

• Heather Goodman @hbgoodie

Books

• Essentialism

Products

• Thread Wallets - Lo Beeston Collection

Guest Links:

• Lobeston Instagram
• Lobeeston Youtube
• TikTok
• Lobeeston.com

Podcast Links:

• Instagram: @Hopestrategy
• Facebook: @hopestrategy
• Twitter: @thehopestrategy
• Youtube The Hope Strategy

Producer: Tom Biesinger

Chris Pierce teaches mental toughness and discusses the lessons he learned from his son Griff who suffered a stroke as a young child and then again in the early months of 2020. Griff was a shining example of love and "living your best life" despite his disabilities. This episode is Hard hitting and a powerful reminder to love, live and learn now. Chris also shares his insights about finding hope in the darkest of times and his motivation to live HIS best life.

Highlighted Quotes

Pay Attention

The biggest thing was "Pay Attention". Pay attention to what's helping you and what's hindering you. Get a glimpse of what's helpful and what's not. What I mean by that is what are the thoughts going through your head? ( That most of the time we're unaware of) Like, "oh I sucked that heat" but there's a reason why. Some of it is physical, maybe you didn't sleep well last night. So maybe if you didn't sleep well last night then we need to help teach you different things so that you can sleep better the night before. Or maybe it was something in the moment like thinking "you got eight points, and I only had a five" their mind starts speeding up. There are a million different things that happen to people, but the first step for me was always just exploring that and recognizing that everyone's different… you can't come to an athlete and say "here's the answer", you could get lucky and you might have the answer for that person but really, everyone is so different that you have to understand who they are and they have to understand who they are first.

Understand yourself

So many people want to change so fast and so it's hard to get them to slow down, because they just want to implement. But before implementing like you have to know the right strategy, people just tend to want the results and so they say "give me a strategy", "give me a technique" and go try everything, but it's like throwing darts blindfolded doing it that way. Take a step back and just try to understand yourself a little bit better. For example there is a confusion between positive and negative, ... or helpful and unhelpful because for some people getting angry, a negative emotion is helpful in a competitive surfing situation, it might give them an adrenaline spike increase their energy and their style of surfing might match that. For somebody else that might be the most detrimental thing ever because maybe they're more flowy and smooth. So many people just want to bypass that step. And it's also the hardest. The hardest step is to look at yourself… people don't like looking in the mirror to see their flaws. it's just hard to do.

"Who cares what people think?"

Griff didn't care if he fell in front of you, he was the first one to laugh at himself when he did fall. and you say "living his best life"... living his best life did not mean being successful. It just meant doing what he wanted to do and not caring about what anybody else thought. I think Griff taught me a huge lesson of "Who cares?"

Resources/Mentions:

• Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time
• Ready and Resilient

Guest Links:

• chrispiercesystems.com
• Instagram
• Youtube

Podcast Links:

• Instagram: @Hopestrategy
• Facebook: @hopestrategy
• Twitter: @thehopestrategy
• Youtube The Hope Strategy

Jason talks about his first experiences with entrepreneurship, how his parents contributed to the desire to start his own ventures, his pursuit of education and his views on the traditional route of "getting an MBA." He shares how his son was the catalyst for starting "Healthy Living Network" and what it took to build, scale and eventually sell. This episode also dives into the environmental factors that contribute to "entrepreneurial spirit".

Highlighted Quotes

"Your Background"

You can come from a divorced family. You can come from a place of no money. You can come from some really chaotic backgrounds and still find happiness and success in your life, whatever you define them to be.

"Creating entrepreneurs"

We realize we've had a talent in creating entrepreneurs, not just investing in people's ideas (in their mind they already see themselves as entrepreneurs) but convincing people that are amazing at what they're already doing and that they too could own their own company someday... that they too could take something that they've been holding on to or thinking about for a while and tweaking it into something that would be distinct.

"Be the best YOU"

There are some wonderful things that we've accomplished in our lives that some people would take two or three lifetimes, and there are some things in our life that we need to change, there are things in our life that money doesn't alter. There are things in our life that we realize if we could tweak just slightly - we could be even greater instruments in giving time and energy to the next generation of entrepreneurs.... If you have faith you focus on your faith, focus on being the best person you can be and love the people around you. I'm doing that right now but I think that we're trying to find ways to reach and expand groups that don't feel loved that don't feel like they have opportunities that don't think that things in their life will change.

Resources/Mentions:

The Healthy Living Network

Guest Links:

Linkedin

Podcast Links:

• Instagram: @Hopestrategy
• Facebook: @hopestrategy
• Twitter: @thehopestrategy
• Youtube The Hope Strategy

Richie Norton talks about his entrepreneurial upbringing, trials and setbacks, ethos, work-life balance, and personal growth. Richie also talks about finding hope in personal tragedy and shares the systems he uses for content creation and idea capture/generation.

Highlight Quotes

"Don't wait"

"I actually interviewed over 300 people mostly in person in the twilight of their lives. And I asked them well what worked, what didn't work and many would say something like this; 'I waited for a time when I have more time more experience more education more money, only to get here, and still not have time education experience of money that I needed to do this thing.' And the successful people they just did it, where they worked with what they had leveraging existing resources. So I thought okay there's no reason to wait. Waiting is not a thing! In fact, if you fail great! At least you can learn that thing you were going to fail when you're 65 wasn't a good thing to be waiting for."

"Time for Money"

"When I was 16, I told my dad I wanted a real job. My dad says the worst thing ever. He says, 'You don't want a job'. What kind of dad says that to a kid that wants a job? He said if you want money go to El Centro and talk to the watermelon farmers and ask if you can buy the irregular sized watermelons. And I'm like, okay, so we took out the family van and took out all of the seats, my brother (who was 14 at the time) and I went down there, talked to the farmers and bought a bunch of irregular sized watermelons that they couldn't sell to the stores, and then we drove them all the way back. It took like three hours to get back, and our car was so full of watermelons that it was seriously low riding. We called everyone we knew, and said 'Hey the Fourth of July is coming up, we have these watermelons...'. We sold them all on the Fourth of July, and we made more money in one day than we would have made working minimum wage the entire summer. And that's why my dad was saying you don't want a job. He wasn't saying don't learn how to be skilled. He was teaching me how to not trade my time for money.

"Family"

It's amazing to me that so many people are willing to work so hard so that one day they can be with their family... at the expense of their actual family.

Resources/Mentions:

Books:

• The Power of Starting Something Stupid
• Resumes Are Dead and What to Do About It

Companies:

• Prouduct - Idea to Market Solutions

Guest Links:

• The Richie Norton Show (Podcast)
• RichieNorton.com
• Linkedin
• Facebook

Podcast Links:

• Instagram: @Hopestrategy
• Facebook: @hopestrategy
• Twitter: @thehopestrategy
• Youtube The Hope Strategy