Unpacked with Ron Harvey
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Unpacked with Ron Harvey
What Would Make You Walk On Clouds Every Day?
Jacob Lawson shares his extraordinary journey from average entrepreneur to purpose-driven leader, revealing how a simple name change from "Big Jake's Affordable Flooring" to "Extraordinary Flooring" completely transformed his business, mindset, and life.
• Everyone has something extraordinary to share with the world
• True leadership requires wanting to lead from within yourself
• Effective leadership means focusing on connected rather than disconnected business ventures
• The best leaders surround themselves with people better than them in complementary areas
• Finding extraordinary requires defining what makes you "walk on clouds" every day
• Leaders must pay forward their success through mentoring others
• Money challenges happen at every level of business growth—they signal breakthrough
• Transformation is more powerful than temporary inspiration or motivation
Check out Jacob's book "Make it Extraordinary: 27 Life-Changing Lessons to Help You Elevate Beyond the Ordinary" on Amazon and follow him on Instagram @make_it_extraordinary for daily motivation.
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Welcome to Turning Point Leadership Podcast with your host, ron Harvey of Global Core Strategies and Consulting. Ron's delighted you joined us and excited to discuss and help you navigate your journey towards becoming an effective leader. During this podcast, ron will share his core belief that effective leadership is one of the key drivers towards change. So together let's grow as leaders. Here's Ron Harvey.
Speaker 2:Good morning. This is Ron Harvey. I'm the vice president, the chief operating officer for Global Core Strategies and Consulting Basically, a leadership development firm. We spend all of our time, day in and day out, on helping leaders be better connected to their workforce the people that actually make things happen for you. So our goal is to make sure there's a great connection and relationship between you and your team, and we love doing that every day.
Speaker 2:But we also pause and we bring guests from around the country on and we do the podcast. We release it every single Monday with a new leader from across the globe, with all different backgrounds, all kinds of things that they're going to share or show and talk about. The one thing we promise you is that we'll talk leadership. Outside of that, we'll stay within about 30 minutes, but we don't know what the questions are, what's going to happen, but we're going to have fun. We ask that you stay with us, join us, follow us, tell people about us. We love what we do, so today I'm going to give you the microphone before we dive into Unpacked.
Speaker 3:Well, thanks for having me, Ron. I've been looking forward to this.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes. Do you have anything that's coming out? Is there anything the business that you're in or books that you've written? Can you share anything that you love for our audience to know about you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I launched my first book. It extraordinary 27 life-changing lessons to help you elevate beyond the ordinary launched that this summer. It's my very first book, very proud of. It basically took the biggest life lessons that I've ever learned in my 40 years of life and I put them into a book. I took them and kind of took them in a chronological order and took all of the biggest challenge and the easy lessons, the hard lessons and the expensive lessons, the ones that I was blessed to be having the mentors in my life to show me early on. The hard lessons that I learned in my 20 plus years of entrepreneurship and the expensive lessons that I learned either by the mistakes on those projects or the rooms that I paid to get in. So you know, 27 life-changing lessons to help you elevate beyond the ordinary.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love it, love it, got it on the shirt. You're promoting it and that's important for all of us. If you're following us. We promote, we talk about what we're doing. We share what we're doing. We're entrepreneurs and you can't be bashful and you can't be shy about what you're offering. What I do say for us, you know, when you think about it, jacob, as an entrepreneur, you kind of got to have a heart for it, but you got to have a heart for helping and serving people as well. So glad to have you on the show as we continue to do the work that we do. Let's dive into some of the stuff I mean currently. I mean you're doing great work. When you think about making it extraordinary and you think about leadership, what are you noticing across the globe where people get stuck at not being average?
Speaker 3:I think there's a lot of people that are just perfectly content with just going by and however life takes you In so many ways. That's fine, but in my heart I believe that everybody has something extraordinary to share with the world. I believe that everybody has some sort of asset, some sort of accolade, some sort of thing about them that is extraordinary. It's something that they can do more than the average person. So to leave that untarnished, to leave that unused up, to me is kind of a travesty. I believe everybody has something special and they should bring it out and share it with the world.
Speaker 2:I 100% agree that I think everybody has something special and they should bring it out and share it with the world. 100% agree that I think everybody has something that they're really, really good at, that makes them excel above other people that may not do it the best. That thing is, none of us are great. All of us are great at something and I think you should tap into that, whatever that is, as a professional. In this space there's almost like this vacuum of developing leaders intentionally long term vacuum of developing leaders intentionally long-term. How do we close the gap on getting people ready to run organizations, whether it's into their companies or their own company or working for an organization or in our schools or in our churches? How do we get people developed to be more effective as leaders?
Speaker 3:Well, you can do all the developing you want, but in my opinion, that person has to want to be the leader. That person has to have some sort of drive. I mean, we work on a lot of development with our team. I own a commercial flooring business that I've been in for over 20 years and we definitely try to do a bunch of different things to develop leaders. But at the end of the day, if it's not in their core, if it's not in their heart to step up and be a leader, it's not really going to happen. Yeah, you can put them in place and they might get the job done, but are they going to excel? They're not going to excel unless they truly want it. They got to want to lead. They got to want to lead for themselves, want to lead for their family, want to lead for their circle right, but if they circle, right, but if if they don't want it, it's very hard to drag it out of somebody.
Speaker 2:I love you saying, like you tap into things I'm sure that probably in your book too as well Like what's the drive for you, what are some things that you can share that you've kind of highlighted without giving away the whole book? What are some things you can share that you've learned over your 40 years of stepping above and going beyond? What have you learned?
Speaker 3:Well, to take it back, you know, my business didn't start as extraordinary flooring. My business started as Big Jake's Affordable Flooring and not everybody starts out with the best name and that definitely wasn't the best one. I wasn't attracting the best spenders. But I did have an aha moment and it was make it extraordinary. And so this is less than six months of me being in business and I changed my name to Extraordinary Flooring and that shifted my mindset. That shifted my mindset from just trying to do these average jobs to doing extraordinary work and almost instantaneously that changed the landscape of my business.
Speaker 3:I started getting multimillion dollar homes. I started getting larger projects. I started getting extraordinary pieces of art that I needed to do, not just some 12 by 12 vinyl plank of flooring to install. We were doing this eloquent marble backsplashes and just really extraordinary pieces of art. And it became a way of business and then progressively, over time, it became a way of life.
Speaker 3:It's not just make it extraordinary flooring, it's make it extraordinary in life. If you have a choice, why make it ordinary when you can be extraordinary? Why do something ordinary when you have the ability to go above and beyond and do something extraordinary? And that's what the word extraordinary is, and part of my kind of legacy play is to break this word down a little bit and make it achievable to the average person, to not think that this word extraordinary is only for the rich and famous and successful. No, it can be for anybody who just has that will and that desire inside of them to reach out and strive for more and do more than that ordinary effort that so many people are very content to leave it at.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow. I love that you're transparent of how you started with the name you started with, and most of us when we start with name and marketing and you know, we know what we want to do and we know we're happy. But you matured and you grew and say, okay, that was nice and yeah, but it's not really what I want to be known as and I don't want to go for the sub part, you know, and I want to be this bigger thing. So I'm glad that you shared with our audience like here's where I started, here's where I am now. But can you unpack? How did it change your mindset the minute you change your name? How did that shift happen?
Speaker 3:it was an aha moment. I was riding in the back of a van doing a pickup job for, actually, my old boss that taught me the flooring industry and it was just an aha moment and you know, for so long it was. Yeah, it was what we strive to be in the business and it was a catchphrase for the business. But over time it started becoming a way of life and, fast forward almost 15 years, business is doing well, started doing multiple businesses building residential homes. I had a restaurant venture. I was building my dream house, I kind of had some of my dream cars and was doing all kinds of things in a successful part of life and I just really wasn't feeling the best about it. I was kind of letting myself go. I was kind of out of shape. I was focused on all of these different businesses and whatever was left. I was focusing on my family. But I wasn't focused on myself anymore and I knew I needed to make a change. I had a family visit and seen one of my older uncles who's in his you know, kind of in his 60s, going through a couple of knee surgeries and hip surgeries and just kind of had the same part kind of let himself go from the man he was, you know, so many years ago. And I was like Jake, if you can make this change, that's your future right there. You're going to be going through all of these, all of these medical problems and health problems.
Speaker 3:And that's when I started to put myself back forward again and focusing on my mental, my healthness, my wellness and that right there, really tied in the whole package for me.
Speaker 3:That's really where I started feeling myself extraordinary again. It was like all right, I was winning here, here and here, but I was losing over here and so I didn't feel extraordinary, I didn't feel great, I didn't feel great in my own skin. So you can be winning over here, over here, over here, but if you don't have those other pieces in your life and for me that was wellness and fitness, but some people it may be family and spiritualness and relationships You're winning over here. You're winning over here. You're winning over here. You're winning over here. You're winning over here, but you got a hold over here and it just keeps you from feeling complete, it keeps you from feeling great, it keeps you from feeling extraordinary. And that's really where this whole lifestyle started tying in for me that it's not just a company motto, it's not just what I'm doing for my foreign company. This is a lifestyle that I want to lead and I want to inspire others to lead.
Speaker 2:That's why I love Unpacked. I mean because you come on you're not really sure where the conversation is going to go, but people become really transparent and say this is what is important for me. Now there's a level of maturity that you've shared and grow for you that you saw a family member and realized you didn't want to go down that path and you had to make some adjustments. You had lost focusing on you. That was a huge moment that shifted your entire life. How has that moment really made life better for you? Which is tied into leadership, because even if you get a position or a title, if you're not happy and you have holes, you're not effective.
Speaker 3:Well, to tie it into Unpacked and to tie it back into leadership. At that time, as I mentioned, I had many focuses going on. I had these other things that were really detracting me from my primary business, which is extraordinary flooring. I've got a great general manager that does amazing things for me, his lifelong friend I've been knowing for forever and he's been with me over 10 years and he was keeping the ship headed north, but we really weren't advancing the way we could because I was sitting off tide looking at this venture, this venture, this venture, and I was kind of distracted and they were disconnected ventures as well as instead of connected ventures, right.
Speaker 3:So at that same time, when I started tying in the physical, I also started tying in more mental. I started knowing that, all right, jake, well, the company's doing well, because we're 20 years into the game, but my leadership is not where it should be. My leadership should be better and that is what will help propel the business further. So I knew that I needed to focus on myself and become a better leader in order to make the team become better leaders, right? So at that same whole mental shift, it all tied in everything mental, physical, everything and that's where I knew that I needed to become a better leader, that just the average leader that I was was not good enough. It got us to where we were, but it wasn't. It got us to where we were, but it wasn't enough to take us to where we were going.
Speaker 2:I love that you're sharing this, because you can get stuck and complacent when you have some success. How do you not let some success slow you down and make you complacent? Because it sounds like that's where you were for a moment and you started chasing after all these other moving components. Because, as an entrepreneur, people will tell you make sure you got more than one place to make money, make sure you got many streams of revenue or income, and you can get caught up in that versus becoming really good at what you're good at and becoming the best at it.
Speaker 3:I had to learn that lesson. The hard way, a little bit, you get a little bit of success and you're hardworking, you got good work ethic, which I've always had and just kind of like, if I'm focused, if I'm driven, I'm going to make it, no matter what, right. Well, it doesn't always happen. We all know the stories of how many times the most successful entrepreneurs in this world have failed. That is part of the business of entrepreneurship is failure, you know, and that's where you learn your biggest lessons and I always kind of had that. Well, if they can do it, I can do it. If they can run 10 businesses, I can do it, you know.
Speaker 3:But I did definitely learn about the difference between connected businesses and disconnected businesses, and a few of my businesses were very disconnected, which didn't help me keep everything tied in. When they are tied in, they start feeding each other right and they work together and they work in unison. When they're completely disconnected Now, you're completely distracted. You're going in these other directions. So I definitely had to learn that lesson.
Speaker 3:I scaled back some of those other ventures, closed down some of those other ventures and then kind of doubled up and tripled up on my main focus, which is the flooring company and that helped me then refocus as a leader. Refocus into growing a team that can support a larger company. Refocus into growing other leaders in the company so that I'm not the only one Right. So those are some of the big changes and shifts. At that same time it's like, all right, well, you're too disconnected right now. You kind of need to refocus, let some other people run those other ventures, but you get refocused on the main thing. Let the main thing be the main thing and kind of let some other people run those other side ventures.
Speaker 2:How do you get out of your own way, because it's easy to get an ego when you're halfway successful and think it's all about you and you're doing everything. How do you help entrepreneurs or leaders like you and I I've been where you all the stuff you talk about. I've been there. How do you help leaders get out of their own way and hire a manager or general manager and allow them to help make you better that you don't have to do everything, because it's hard to let go of what you built and let somebody else start running it? What advice would you give someone that's struggling there like letting go and letting other people help?
Speaker 3:Well, don't think you're the only one that can do it, you know, because you're not right. You don't have the one solo job that only such and such can do. Right, there's. You know there's not many of those jobs out there, and even the ones that are similar to that, they still got somebody else that can come right up on you and do it. Don't think you're the only one that can do everything, and if you're trying to do everything, you're not going to get the most out of the accomplishments that you're able to achieve.
Speaker 3:The best people in the world find people that are better than them to do those other things. You know, if you've got one or two super, super strengths, those are your superpowers. Focus on those. All the ones that are not your superpowers, get somebody else, because you know it's likely that that's their superpower and that's how you really start winning. You got to start connecting those teams, Right?
Speaker 3:No major huge corporation is doing it on their own. Not a single huge company. I don't even want to call it a corporation. They're not doing it on their own. It doesn't work that way. It requires a team, those different skill sets of those teammates that have stronger skill sets than you in those particular areas. That's how everybody starts winning.
Speaker 3:So don't think that you're the only one that can do it. And if you can't get out of your own way because you think you're the only one that can do it, you're probably not surrounding yourself with others that are doing more than you. Also, if you still have the mentality that I'm the only one that can do this, then you need to find a different circle. You're the biggest fish in your pond right now that your head's so swole that you think I'm the only one that can do all of this. Like you've got to step in some other ponds and look at the people that are doing way more than you, and then you'd realize that they're not doing it all by themselves. They've got a team behind them and that's how they're so much bigger by themselves.
Speaker 2:They got a team behind them and that's how they're so much bigger. Oh, I love it. If you think that you're the only one, get out of your own way, but go find someone that's bigger than you that's doing it, and you'll realize they have a team. Can you speak briefly on what do you mean by connected businesses and disconnected business? I get it, but for people that are entrepreneurs that are, because sometimes you'll chase things, I know that Can you unpack that for a second? What was an example of something that you went after that was not connected to your flowing business that you had to let go of?
Speaker 3:Well, I did some other ventures with some other partners and my wife and some of her partners. We teamed up on a restaurant. We teamed up on a media company and they were just kind of completely disconnected. And I'm kind of using my business acumen to run these businesses, even though I'm a specialist in my service-based business, right. So I'm trying to use these same things and just try to put the business knowledge I have behind those. But while I'm focusing on growing these other things, I'm not focused on my primary business, which has the most versus fast forward.
Speaker 3:Now you know my business Extraordinary Flooring. I'm focused on building connected businesses to that. I'm focused on building Extraordinary Flooring and Maintenance. I'm focused on building the residential division of my company. I'm focused on cleaning division of my company. Right, those things are all connected and they feed each other. The same clients that are used for flooring are going to need some maintenance. The same clients that I need the maintenance. All of a sudden they also, while I'm maintaining it, they might want me to get their office cleaned, right. So the same clients that I'm doing the business in, they also own a house and a garage and hopefully a sports car that they want a nice epoxy garage floor in. So you know, now I'm building these connected businesses that feed each other right? They're all connected and this one can feed that one and that one can feed this one.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love it. So, entrepreneurs, if you're listening, what are you missing that you can offer to the same client without having to find a new client that needs to service is you're showing up small in that company and they don't even know everything you offer. So, like, what else can you do that's in alignment with what you're already doing and it makes sense to be able to offer that to your clients and your customers. What can you offer that provides a service that they're already looking for? And if they don't know you do it, they're going to hire somebody. Why not you? When you think about the biggest mistake that you've learned, that you had to grow from what?
Speaker 3:was that.
Speaker 3:In business it was kind of failed partnerships. It was kind of signing up early in a honeymoon phase of a few partnerships that sounded good on paper and everybody's got this enthusiasm in the beginning of it and we're going to conquer the world together. Enthusiasm in the beginning of it and we're going to conquer the world together. And it's kind of like jumping in and proposing after two weeks you're jumping into a serious relationship that is going to take some time to either tangle up or untangle.
Speaker 3:And if you do not have the proper roles and responsibilities allocated and everything worked out and knowing that this is your role, this is your responsibility, and knowing that they're going to be capable of doing it, knowing that they're going to have that work, ethic, drive and determination to pull through when things get tough, you know, because I don't know about you, but I'd have to say at least 90% of all starting businesses are tough, if not all of them.
Speaker 3:Some of them are lightning in a bottle. But even those, then you got your growth challenges. So there's always challenges in business and they say here's the line for the people that are dreaming about it right, and here's the line for the people that are actually willing to put the work in for it right. It's a whole lot shorter line on the right, so make sure you're tying in with the right partner. Take your time with it, start a little slow, do some things, see what their real background is and see what their capabilities are, and make sure you're willing to go to it. And I call it going to war.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, in all roles, in entrepreneurship and leadership, you've got to have people that's prepared to stand in under pressure and in tough times. You know what I have learned over the years. You know Jacob is the best leaders I've ever seen. I watched them, under pressure, do well. That's when you get to hone your skills. When it's tough, it shows how good you are. When everything's easy, it's easy to look good, it's like how are you holding up when the money's kind of funny and the employees are not doing it, your customers are not happy or it's not like can you stay calm, professional, collective and keep it all together and still get it done without throwing the towel in?
Speaker 3:when the money's kind of funny. Ain't nothing funny about those moments. Man ain't nothing funny about those moments. Man Ain't nothing funny about those moments. I love that one.
Speaker 2:But you've been there, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3:Oh man, I'm still there. You know, I did a post the other day. Man, if you're growing, if you're constantly growing like a rocket, if you're always pushing the envelope, if you were trying to do some big things, guess you're gonna go through money challenges. It just happens at different levels.
Speaker 3:You know, at first you got ten thousand dollar problems, then you got fifty thousand dollar problems, then you got a hundred thousand dollar problems, then you got five hundred thousand dollar problems. So you know it just goes at different levels. You know I tell people all the time it used to stress me out pretty damn bad. But now, when it happens, I'm smiling and they're like happens, I'm smiling and they're like how in the hell can you be smiling? They're like how are you not going crazy? Because I know I'm about to bust to the next level. I know it, I feel it, I've been here before. This is experience. This is fourth in goal on the one yard line. I got to punch through this thing if we want to make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3:So I tell people all the time, especially younger, younger people that I mentor and they're going through it, and you see the stress on them and they're wearing the stress Right. It's like a hundred pound wet knapsack on their body, right. And I'm like look, you can't get rid of the stress. It's up here, it ain't going away until it's gone. But you can stop from feeling the pressure of the stress, right, like, just know it's up here, but know that the only thing that you can do is work towards the resolution. Nothing else is going to help. Stressing over it does not help. Letting that weigh you down like a wet blanket does not help anything. The only thing you can do is work forward towards the resolution and that's what fixes those problems. So when I tell people that I try to get them to envision like, don't let that actually physically wear down on your body you know it's still up here, but the only thing you can do is work on a resolution I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. I want to go somewhere. I want to unpack something you said that's super important. How important is it for people like you and I that have had some level of success to a degree to pay it forward and give back mentoring?
Speaker 3:I think it's the only way. I think that's your duty in life, especially if you've had people in your life that have helped you get there. And you know, that's one of the things I have in my book Everybody who does something great has somebody that has helped them along the way. I don't care if it's because they are the best athlete in the world. They've got a coach that helps them get better. Before their coach, they had some parents or some uncles or a high school coach or a t-ball coach or somebody or a high school coach or a t-ball coach or somebody. And maybe the example that they got came from a bad place, maybe it wasn't a great mentor, maybe it was something almost horrible in their life that gave them that grit and determination to fight for what they want Right. So everybody has somebody that has contributed in some way to their success.
Speaker 3:So, in my opinion, it's only right to give back, like I was blessed so many ways in my early life with early mentors, that I was blessed, naturally, with a work ethic, but I had mentors in my life that just helped challenge me and helped me go for more. You know, and now I definitely feel like this is my service. This is my life's legacy. Is to pay this thing back, is to this make it extraordinary. Movement is something I'm going to do. I'm going to inspire millions over my lifetime, to just you know don't settle for the ordinary. Make it extraordinary, and so that's my legacy play.
Speaker 2:I love it, man. You're spot on. You're doing it already, you're having conversations and it's been phenomenal to unpack with you. I know you have a book, so I want to get to that, but is there anything that you want to share that you haven't shared? To help people that are listening be extraordinary.
Speaker 3:First you have to envision what is an extraordinary life to you. Are you living it Like you could be living a good life? You can be living a great life. We're all blessed to have the lives that we have, no matter how good or bad they are. But what would make your life extraordinary? What would make you walk around like you're walking on a cloud every day? Can't smack the smile off of your face. What is it in your life? What would it take in your four pillars in your life, your love, your career, your finances. What would it take to have all of those things tied in and just have you just impeccably happy, right, every single day, like?
Speaker 3:So first you have to envision what does it take? What would I have to do for myself to put all of those things in my life to just be untouchable, unstoppable. I would just feel extraordinary, right. So first you have to envision it, you have to define it, and then you can go after it and chase it me to feel complete, in order for me to feel like I've given and have achieved what I'm capable of feeling, I've got to be headed here, I've got to be striving for this, I've got to be reaching for that. So you've got to have some goals in life, you've got to have what that envision is for you, for that extraordinary life, because everybody's different.
Speaker 3:Nobody has the same exact envisioning of their perfect life. So so you know, obviously there's no such thing as perfect. There will always be imperfections, there will always be struggles and strifes, highs and lows, but in order to achieve what that is, you got to know what it is right. So know what that is is the battle for me. Like so many people are just walking around taking life how it comes, you know, hoping that they get lucky some kind of way, versus the people who are out there, focused. They see it, they smell it, they can taste it, they're working for it. Even you know you got the people that are working like a rabbit dog at it. Or you got the people that are just edging at it, but that's fine, but you got to be ed are working like a rabbit dog at it. Or you got the people that are just edging at it, but that's fine, but you got to be edging towards something or you're just going to live in ordinary existence that you're not squeezing that, that juice out of everything you got.
Speaker 2:So, as we come to a close, do you have a copy of the book with you? Can you tell us, you know, the name of the book and where we can find it? And, you know, share it with them, I do.
Speaker 3:Book is Make it Extraordinary 27 Life-Changing Lessons to Help you Elevate Beyond the Ordinary. This is the first book that I have written. It is not going to be the last book. I took all of my major life lessons and put them down kind of in chronological order. It is a very relatable book. I've got many life lessons that started in early childhood to teenage. Like I said, the easy ones, the hard ones and the expensive ones, all the way through business, business coaching, mentors in my life. It was another big thing is me to pay homage to all my mentors. So that was another huge part of this book is I paid homage to all my mentors, especially in this entrepreneurial world that we live in. You know it's so relatable that all of these little lessons that you know, everybody I've talked to, like man, this one I really connected with because of this story and this one I really connected with because of this story. So it's a very relatable book.
Speaker 3:It's quick, it's short, you know I'll call it a plane ride read. And less than three hours you can be done. It's quick, it's short. I'll call it a plane ride read. In less than three hours you can be done. It's got some cool little stories in it and each story has a lesson in the beginning and at the end of the chapter tying in those stories and why they were so instrumental in my life and changing my life. This is kind of the beginning of my movement. Man Extraordinary Flooring is my number one project that pays the bills but make it extraordinary as my legacy project that I plan on, you know, living throughout the rest of my life and inspire millions to find that extraordinary version of themselves and share it with the world.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it and even as I listened to the podcast and what you're sharing, I think this would be a great message for us to release at the beginning of the year, when people are having these things that they want to get done, you know, because you're speaking to something that's reality. Can you kick off the new year for all of you that are listening and you're following us, you know, so be prepared that, as I work with the team to drop this message in at the beginning of the year to inspire you to create this value add, so you can start off the new year with make it extraordinary, jacob, it's been great man. Off the new year with Make it Extraordinary, jacob, it's been great man. How do people get in touch with you?
Speaker 3:So before I drop on that, I want to touch on what you just said. I want to unpack that a little bit more, especially in this leadership podcast. Leaders are what Leaders are inspirational. Leaders are motivational. Right, everybody needs a little bit of that in their life. But more important than both of it, don't just be inspirational, don't just be inspired, don't just be motivated. Get transformed, be transformational. Transform your life. It's something that changes forever.
Speaker 3:Inspiration and motivation a lot of times are very temporary. What we want to make in this world is transformations. When we make transformations in ourselves, we start transforming others around us, and that, to me, is such an extraordinary. Every time I feel that, every time I know that I inspire and I change some other lives, it gives me goosebumps. That's better than any feeling of monetary. It's like I see that life change happening and that's a transformation. Not just an inspiration, not just a motivation, but a transformation. So, especially since we're talking about end of the year, we've got these New Year's resolutions. Everybody's going to hit the gym for 30 days. Right, don't hit the gym for 30 days, don't read half a book because this is my new thing and then by February we're right back to square one. Don't just be motivated and inspired to change something. Be transformed, be transformational, transform your life, do something that changes it forever.
Speaker 3:So make it extraordinaryco is the website Make it extraordinary on Instagram. On Facebook, jacob Lawson. On LinkedIn. The actual Instagram handle is make, underscore it extraordinary, but you type in make it extraordinary, it'll pull up. Every single day I put out a motivational message in the morning, daily motivational quote. Got a little workout in there right behind it and some motivational music, so put that out every morning. 6 am. I'm a four o'clock workout club, so you know 4 am Workout club. Make it extraordinary. The book Make it extraordinary is on Amazon. Please buy it, like it, read it, share it. It's a very relatable and inspirational story of all of the things that have changed and made me who I am and have prepared me for the person that I am striving to be.
Speaker 2:Awesome man. Thank you so much. Tell us where to find it at. Like I said, our goal is to get this in front of people for the new year, so we can kick it off the new year and make it extraordinary. So thank y'all for joining us. We really had a great time of unpacking it. Man, you were phenomenal. Thank you for allowing us just to dive a little bit into the level of success and the things. What woke you up and made you have a mindset shift. I think you add a lot of value to our audience. For those of you that follow us, we release every single Monday a different episode of this podcast, and it's about unpacking it, keeping it real, having fun, but helping you get better. Our goal is to add value and make a difference. Hopefully, we did this in this podcast and until next time, jacob and I will sign off and we look forward to having you as our guest in the future to having you as our guest in the future.
Speaker 1:We hope you enjoyed this edition of Turning Point Leadership with your host, Ron Harvey. We're so glad you joined us. Remember to join us every first and third Mondays and expect to receive real answers for real leadership challenges. Until next time, make a difference where you are and with what you have. There are those who are counting on you for effective leadership.
