July 8, 2024
What We Learned From Our Full Time Jobs That Serve Us in Business
Can your full-time job actually be the secret weapon in your entrepreneurial toolkit? Discover how the skills you cultivate in your everyday career—from public speaking to customer service—can be the catalysts for your business success. In this episode of Modern Leadership, we share our own journeys and practical examples to showcase how opportunities like attending reimbursed training sessions can enrich both your career and entrepreneurial aspirations. We're flipping the script on the notion that a full-time job is a hindrance, illustrating how a simple shift in mindset can transform your 9-5 into a launchpad for a thriving business.
Facing challenges is inevitable, but what if you could turn them into stepping stones for growth? We dive into personal stories of overcoming limiting beliefs and health diagnoses to demonstrate the power of perspective and community support. Through self-coaching and surrounding ourselves with positive influences, we can reshape our mindsets and unlock new levels of success. This episode also introduces our Inner Circle—a supportive community designed for entrepreneurs who want to align their business endeavors with their values and family goals. Tune in for actionable tips and strategies that will inspire you to take the next bold step in both your business and personal life.
Are you looking for a tribe of like minded family-first business owners who want to grow a business they love, create powerful connections with their family, and keep their health on track? If so, check out our Modern Leadership Inner Circle community where we help you do just that at: https://www.modernleadership.us/podcastjoin
Chapters
00:00 - Leveraging Job Skills for Business Success
08:49 - Finding Opportunities Through Challenges
Transcript
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It's time to redefine leadership.
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What is going on, my people, and welcome back to another episode of the Modern Leadership Podcast, and today we are talking about how your full-time job can speed up the growth in your business.
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Now, we actually did a workshop on this.
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It was kind of like a rather long workshop.
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I think I talked a little bit too much on that one.
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I'm on our YouTube channel where we broke down like eight different ways that our career actually sped up the process of us being able to create more income in our business.
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But we wanted to come in here real quick and just really call out to a couple different things that we were talking about on that workshop, because a lot of times, I think people feel that because they're working full time, it's actually slowing down the process of them growing their business and it's actually something getting in their way when, in reality, when you're able to see things differently which is what we love to do here on Modern Leadership is we see things with our modern leader lens you realize that that can actually speed up the process of the growth of your business.
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So, that being said, how are you doing?
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Welcome back to the show.
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I'm great.
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Welcome back to your show.
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Welcome back to your show, okay, so let's kind of chat about it real quick.
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So, when it comes to that process, let's actually just start off with, like why is it so hard to believe that your full-time job can actually give?
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to your business instead of taking away.
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What do you think it is?
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I think it's because sometimes we feel like one thing takes away from the other.
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So we're thinking well, you know, right now I want to grow my business, but my job is taking away from me being able to spend time on my business, and we wanted to give you a different perspective.
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And I think, with these points, I think we're really going to hit home on this 100%.
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I know we're not going to go into all of them, but when you think about the training that we did give, what was the one for you that seemed to speak loudest to you?
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your business, and I gave different examples.
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One particular one was public speaking.
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So I wanted to grow in being able to give presentations and just speak in public.
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So I decided I was going to join a Toastmasters club and I did that through my job and I think I got reimbursed for it, if I remember correctly, and that was something that was really helpful because it gave me the ability to grow in that area in communication, in public speaking and that is what I'm using right now, right as we speak, the things that I learned from that.
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I'm using it in our business, using it in our business.
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So that is something that really, I think is one of the main topics.
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I think that has really helped, yeah.
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Yeah, when you think about this, when you think about the skills that we have developed prior to creating a business, right?
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So whether it's me working 20 years at LAPD, working at UCLA Medical Center, all the other odd jobs, working as a security officer, working at Magic Mountain, working at a movie theater all of those things have developed skills that we can actually use in our business, right?
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And I remember when I was getting to the end with LAPD is I would ask myself, how can I attend trainings here that are going to make me a better police sergeant but also translate into making me a better business owner?
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And so there was very specific trainings that, even in the police field whether it's about communicating or having conversations with people, like all the different skills I know we were talking about this in the workshop is like I got really good with being able to accept negative criticism being a police officer and getting people to tell me things like that.
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You wouldn't normally tell people right, because they were upset or frustrated or whatever.
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Right, they weren't mad at me, it was just the system or the uniform that I was wearing, right, and so those skills are actually things that I was able to develop.
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So when I came here to business, I didn't have to develop them again.
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There's so many people who've developed skills, from cashiers to sales, to marketing, to what do you call it Customer service, like all those kinds of things where you actually get to take all of those skills with you into your business.
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Otherwise you'd have to learn them.
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You would still have to learn them, but you'd have to learn them through the school of hard knocks usually, which is like you failing and then try to do it a little bit better.
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Right.
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But anytime that we think about the skills and the things that we've learned in our job and how we can bring that into business, it now allows us to use our career in a way to propel us forward in business, and I know we talked about this too.
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When you think about some of the skills that you can actually get paid for right now, like you just said, they're like they reimbursed me for it.
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They're literally paying for you to become a better speaker, because it's going to help them at UCLA, but it's also going to help you in your business, and so when I think about that, I think about what are some skills that will help me increase both, because I also don't want to do what some people do, which is give the bare minimum.
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I didn't want to just give the bare minimum at work.
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I still wanted to give and be the best that I could be, but I wanted to use it more of like an opportunity to grow there as a police sergeant but also in business.
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So I really do like that skills piece.
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For me, one of the things that really helped was the credibility that it brought.
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So many people forget they think that when they start business, that everything that happened before this didn't happen.
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But if I'm having a conversation with somebody and I talk about being a police sergeant for LAPD for 20 years, it gives me some credibility when it comes to conversations, leadership, communication, all that kind of stuff.
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Because I did that for 20 years and realizing that while you're there you can still gain that credibility right.
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So while I was at LAPD for a long time I never talked about my business.
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I never did anything like that because it was kind of against the rules to recruit people.
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But then I realized, like this skill that I learned life and performance coaching can help so much and I've already seen it help so many citizens that I've actually come into contact with who in the worst time of their life.
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I was able to help them out and them write me commendations and, like you know, say all these kudos to me, because I took the approach of really caring about them, being empathetic and asking them questions.
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And so while I was doing that, I actually approached some of the leaders at LAPD and asked them if I could give teaching and training and things on the things that I was really good at, and so they gave me extra credibility.
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So when I left, not only did I have 20 years experience, but I also had doing teachings and trainings and people had been calling on me.
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Commanders were like, hey, could you give this presentation to my squad?
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And I became that person that people knew as doing that.
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Clients still come forward from that respect, but it gave me so much credibility to carry on into my business.
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Because when you hear me doing those things, when you hear me being on the front lines, the decisions I had to make sometimes were like life and death situations.
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You're kind of okay with me helping you with business decisions, right, because of the credibility that we had there.
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And you're no different Meaning you, the podcast listener, are no different.
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You've been able to experience some type of credibility from your work, from your job, the things that you've been able to learn, the things you've Now, are going to be able to carry over into your business.
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It's just are you willing to see it as your superpower, or are you going to continue to use it as your kryptonite and have it hold you down when, in reality, it could be the thing that propels you forward even more?
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What do you have to say about that?
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No, I think it's great and I think it's a way of seeing the opportunities rather than the challenges 100%.
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Because, rather than thinking, hey, this is taking from me, just like I said before, this is taking time away from me, it's more of.
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I don't see this as a challenge, this more as an opportunity to really get better, so that when I go full time, if that's what you decide to do with your business, then you're going to have so much to be able to give in that respect.
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Well, I'm curious.
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I do want to ask you one follow-up question, because you're talking about that like challenges versus opportunities.
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How do you get yourself to focus on them being more opportunities than challenges?
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yeah, it's really thinking of like, like we've talked before, it's like the stories that you tell yourself, right, like, how are you seeing this?
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Like, what perspective are you seeing this from?
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Are you seeing this from like, oh man, I can't wait to leave this job because you know, whatever is going on it's toxic?
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Or like, hey, this is my reality right now and there's only so much I can control.
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What can I control?
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Can I control getting some type of training?
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Can I control maybe earning and we'll talk about this a little bit later but saving some money right now that I do have a full-time job and I have a stable income so that when I go into my business, I have some cash aid that I can feel good about.
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So it's about having a different perspective and thinking like how is this an opportunity for me right now?
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I love that.
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I love that.
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I love that.
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One of the speed hacks that comes up for me, too, is just being able to coach yourself and being able to find those stories.
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But there's there's a lot of times that I have like, because I have the behind the scenes view of my own life, that my limiting beliefs get in the way, and one of the ways that I help tackle this is the people that I surround myself with, right?
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I mean, it's literally why we do these podcasts, why we have our inner circle and all the things that we do, is because, when they say, your average of the five people you spend the most time with, it's very easy because their actions, their beliefs, their thoughts, all of those things are very contagious.
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Try hanging out with somebody who's positive all the time, and after doing that for a series of days, you're going to realize that it's just so much easier to be positive.
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And the opposite is true, too.
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If people are negative or they're gossiping, it's very easy to get into that because it's contagious.
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We all want to fit in and that's like a desire that we all have that's woven into our subconscious mind, right?
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And so how I use this as my superpower is.
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I find people that I do want to fit in with.
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I find people who have the same values and goals, but they have higher standards.
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People who are positive, who know how to reframe, who are coaches, honestly, and when they're able to do that, it makes it so much easier for me to do that too.
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Um, now, I know we kind of talked about this, but that's literally what we have the inner circle for.
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Right is because we want to make sure that we can help support people on youtube and inside of our app so that we can help them reframe it right, because in the moment when they're going through that thing, I was diagnosed with cro disease.
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It sucked, nobody was going to be able to tell me that it was an opportunity, but by being surrounded, surrounding myself with the right people, I slowly did get to see different ways that I could see it as an opportunity.
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Different questions that people could ask me to kind of like challenge it to where I was right there and getting myself to see like me, seeing that as a challenge and something that's going to like ruin whatever.
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I was actually causing me to manifest that?
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Because I was feeling depressed and I was not doing things that I needed to do, and being able to be in that environment helped lift me up, and that's really why we created our Inner Circle.
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Now, if you're somebody who never heard about the Inner Circle, it's a program that we actually have on YouTube where every other week, we get together, we do a live call similar to the one that we had here today.
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We're talking about how your full-time job can serve your business, and we also have access to our private app, where people get an opportunity to jump in there, have a conversation with us, ask questions, be around 4,000 plus entrepreneurs who are family-driven, who want to build a business they love, connect deeper with their family and get their physical, mental health on point, if that's something you're ever interested in.
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It's like $10 a month Head over.
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I'll leave you the description or I'll leave you the information inside of the show notes so you can click over there to learn a little bit more about it, but it's really powerful.
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We also open up our YouTube and our podcast to some of our members, right?
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So we ask our members of the Inner Circle to come on and give training to our people and then also talk about their business and how they could actually be used in terms of to serve the people in our community, because our goal is not to just have everybody work with us.
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Our goal is to have a community where everybody can find somebody else that they really need within the community and hire them, whether you're the person who's getting hired or you're the person who needs to hire someone.
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That's why we have such a really powerful team.
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I know right now we have Kurt, who's doing a lot of people's podcasts and stuff like that Audio editing and things like that.
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He's been a DJ forever and he's really great at what he does, and then Aaron, who's our VA, who also is now helping other people.
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So there's so many different opportunities that we have in there.
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If that's ever something that people are interested, definitely go to the show notes.
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All right, guys.
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I appreciate you guys making it to the end of another episode.
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Thank you so much for leaning in.
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Hopefully this conversation has been helpful.
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If you did enjoy this, we have the full video on YouTube.
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We actually opened it up for everyone.
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Generally, our inner circle calls are only available to people in the inner circle, but we opened this one up to everyone on YouTube.
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It talks about what we learned from our full-time jobs that serve us in business.
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So definitely hit us up on our Modern Leadership Modern Leadership Almost messed up on that one On our Modern Leadership YouTube channel.
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Definitely subscribe and, of course, let us know how we're doing here on the podcast.
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We appreciate you guys so much.
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Thank you for what you do out there every single day and keep leading from the front.
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We'll see.
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