In this weeks podcast, Austin, Amer, and John discuss with the role of a leader is in their business. And for John, he’s been in an interesting situation lately where Jocelyn and Noah, who are absolute killers when it comes to taking production issues and resolving them skilfully for clients, may also need a different kind of coaching from John to take themselves to the next level when addressing concerns that are bigger than themselves. There are many interesting observations coming from this episode considering Austin and John have now seen a full economic cycle in their home improvement businesses. John acknowledges that he’s not had much experience in being coach. Majority of his success has come from him acting as an Achilles, being the warrior himself, fighting on the front lines and leading from the front. And although it’s an amazing position to be in when your employees have full faith in your abilities as a leader, it can also become a Blindspot. This is the case for Jocelyn and Noah. Dial it in! 🔥--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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John has officially seen a full economic cycle in his business and has watched the market turn from an employees market (in 2022) to an employers market (in 2023). In this week’s podcast, Austin, Amer and John discuss the changes they’ve observed especially throughout recruiting time while they run businesses in the home improvement market. John also shares the trials and tribulations of expanding from one production manager to two. And later on in the episode, Amer shares the process he’s going through in coaching introverted people into growing into leadership roles. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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"Birthdays are participation medals of life." - John Morgan

It's always a treat when on your birthday, John Morgan III tells you he wishes you well and respects your work in your business, and that he also doesn't give a sh*t it's your birthday.

In this week's episode, Amer shares his experience of visiting Omaha to see Warren Buffet along with his experience of witnessing some fantastical stereotypes of a Southern American (guns and beer guts)

Later in the episode, Austin, Amer, and John discuss their relationships with meditation - Austin who has entropied some time away from the practice, John who practices in waves, and Amer who practices meditating on weekdays. John mentions that using Sam Harris' app, "Waking Up", he received a a notification message from Sam Harris that said "I envy your meditation streak", which John found charming because he did actually feel like his consistency had improved from being aware of this streak. However, Sam Harris' message continued to explain that if you're only present to satisfy your streak, we've really missed the mark on what the intentions of mediating should be.

There are no participation medals for meditating. There's no credit if you tell others. There's not even a benefit for you if you haven't participated correctly in the practice.

Ultimately, you are either able to live your life completely, or you are not.

Take this episode as a reminder to audit your intentions in meditation.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's episode of The Weekly Call.

Resources

Sam Harris' Meditation App - "Waking Up" (www.wakingup.com)

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In this weeks podcast, Austin, Amer, and John discuss what it’s like to be a teacher in your business. John makes a comment that he wouldn’t hire anyone into his business that has a quick expiry date. For a role like a painter, this might be doable but for a position that takes a lot more niche skill - like a position that requires sales or heavier business acumen, sometimes it just makes more sense to hire individuals that do not have such a restrictive work term. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this weeks podcast, Amer shares his thoughts on the partnership he currently has with Patrick in his business. One of the things that can come up in a business partnership is the fairness of the agreement in between partners and that usually involves those individuals’ commitment. For Amer, there were 4 things working against him: 1. Memory - in the beginning of the business, Amer would forget what contributions Patrick had made to the company (especially the ones that were critical early on) 2. Confirmation Bias - it’s easy to be fully aware of your contributions while ignoring someone else’s just because you can’t witness them (especially in our virtual working environments) 3. Ego - the classic thinking your work and your contributions are more important than someone else’s. Tune in to learn more about what the best metrics of measuring value of your business partner are.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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Austin shares a personal bias of his that usually goes “ why aren’t you a certain way?” Even if someone is a top performing person, the little voice in his head tends to create judgement around peoples behaviour. Austin shares that in those moments he’s realized that his judgement on others is actually a mirror back at himself where he doesn’t wanna take accountability for someone’s behaviour whether it’s in his business or personal life. This personal bias and judgement tends to be a very shortsighted conclusion where you get to be right and the other person gets to be wrong and you can easily move on. Listeners, while you’re listening to this episode maybe take a moment to reflect where the blind spot could be present in your life!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this weeks podcast, John shares an incredible story from his past where he was given a pretty monumental opportunity and repeated difficult situations in his family life. A girl with left her hoodie at the Wendy’s they both worked at on her first shift, and John took it home with him. They ended up meeting up so he could give it back to her and they ended up dating for around 1.5 years. When John met her father, he saw where John was in his life and must’ve seen something really special in him too, because he ended up teaching John a lot about business and even giving him a job. It’s insane to think that sometimes life can just give you blessings, (even when they may have been incredibly unlikely and maybe not even deserved in the moment), like irreplaceable role models who end up shaping who you turn out to be years later. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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Outside of the scope of religion, you, as a man or a woman have the responsibility to make decisions that will carry positively to your future generations. That is one of the reasons why we want to accumulate resources and work so hard… In this weeks podcast, Amer is in a situation where he is constructing a code of principles to follow in his life. And that set of principles may no longer be from his religion. An ask from Amer to our listeners is that if you guys have read the Quran in full, please reach out to him because he would love to have a conversation with you to explore his beliefs and relationship with his religion further with you. There are benefits and consequences of believing in religion. So if you were to live your life “right” by yourself, it’s important that you don’t move through the notions of participating in your religion when you don’t truly believe in your heart that your belief system is true. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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On this week's podcast, Austin, Amer, and John discuss their quarter together.

This winter compared to last winter has looked quite different in terms of Austin's involvement with sales in his business. Since Gabe has improved his efficiency in doing quotes, Austin's time has also freed up from this part of his previous responsibilities. Interesting insight from Gabe that he feels that his past work experiences in servicing jobs (ex. fine dining) where he would upsell people on food and wine, was a great foundational for his skills in being able to build rapport with people in such a short amount of time.

Later in the episode, the guys dive into the topic of how you should pay your sales staff, and discuss SalesRabbit, the sales enablement service and mobile CRM designed specifically for external sales from your business.

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Episode 200 is here! You are listening to it, and that means 200 weekly episodes consistently recorded, that means this podcast is 3 1/2 years old (200 weeks).

Our first episode was released on October 29, 2019.

The world has changed so much since then, we've changed so much since then, and we want to acknowledge that there have been a few people listening to this podcast that have been here since the very beginning. The fact that hundreds of people have sat down to listen to us weeks over weeks means a lot to us. And I'm not sure Amer, John, or Austin have taken a moment together to process what that means for the impact they've created but we know it's incredible.

We want to shout out that we are considering spicing up our intro of the podcast and are opening up submissions from our listeners! If you're an early listener of the podcast you know that we've had some incredible fans write us raps and we just can't get enough! Lol

In all seriousness though, it's time that we get a professional intro done and we'd love to put your work on display and involve our community in this.

Thank you for the overwhelming support as always.

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