S1: Welcome to business and the podcast for people making it
S1: all happen. Running a successful business completely takes over your life,
S1: but I'm a believer that there is still room for
S1: some ands like health, wealth, beauty, and maybe even some fashion.
S1: On this podcast, I'll share with you what's working for
S1: scaling my nine figure business while keeping you up to
S1: date on the latest trends, news and fun finds. This
S1: is a place for business and let's dive in. Back
S1: to business and let's talk about business and vacation. This
S1: is the very first trip I have taken in the
S1: last six years, where I set an out of office
S1: and my out of office said this. Bonjour! I'm currently
S1: out of the office and we'll be back online next Wednesday.
S1: This week is a special one. I'm checking off a
S1: longtime personal, professional, and financial goal of heading to Formula
S1: One in Monaco while I'm away. If something is urgent,
S1: feel free to text me. To request a meeting. Please
S1: reach out to tailor insert my assistant's email. And finally,
S1: and most importantly, I won't be sorting through a backlog
S1: of emails when I return. My inbox was at zero
S1: before I left and will be cleared while I'm out.
S1: If there's something I need to see, please resend it
S1: on Wednesday when I return so it doesn't get missed.
S1: Thanks so much and have a ten day. The reason
S1: I set this out of office is I am going
S1: to change my environment, and being in Monaco solidified this
S1: change that I'm about to go through. Because in order
S1: to get to where I want to go, I can't
S1: keep spending my time the way that I'm spending my time.
S1: I've had different transitions through running Cardoen ventures, where I
S1: reshape meetings, I reshape emails, I reshape my communication to
S1: my team and my role with my team. And that's
S1: had to happen in order to go from where we
S1: were six years ago to having hundreds of team members
S1: today with portfolio companies and partners and different demands on
S1: my time. But being in Monaco just cemented for me
S1: that I have to take full ownership of my environment
S1: and how I set other people up for success in
S1: my environment and it's really cool. Right now, I updated
S1: my screensaver because my screensaver for me is always like
S1: the theme of the current time that I'm in. And
S1: my screensaver is this picture of this glass building on
S1: a street of brownstones, and this glass building has bright
S1: pink smoke in it. So it's like electrifying. And it
S1: it's different. It stands out from everything else that's beside it.
S1: And this is my visual on building my own dream
S1: house and my environment is what my dream house is.
S1: And when you really own how you do business, how
S1: you want your life structured, how you want people to
S1: communicate with you, who you want to show up as.
S1: It's okay that the way you do things might look
S1: entirely different than everybody else, because it is your freaking
S1: dream house. It is your environment that you get to create,
S1: that you get to craft. And I just had this
S1: realization right before I went out of the country that
S1: I am no longer going to pretend like I'm every
S1: other brownstone on the block. Like, oh, come in, and
S1: we're just slightly better. No. Like the way I do
S1: things and the way that I want to run. My
S1: life is different. The way that I view the people
S1: who I will allow in my environment is different. My expectations,
S1: they are different. And so pretending. And this is a
S1: trap that I sometimes find myself in. Pretending like it's
S1: the same and then surprising people doesn't get a great result.
S1: But being so clear on who you are, what you expect,
S1: what you want your environment to look like, and being
S1: really willing to confront areas that don't fit. Is this
S1: next area of evolution. And so as something as simple
S1: as emails, I mean, every vacation I've taken for six
S1: years has been me still answering emails and waking up
S1: early in order to to clear out my inbox and
S1: to make sure I'm there for my team. And what
S1: if something happens? No, I'm now in a phase where
S1: that doesn't work. That's not going to get me where
S1: I want to go, where I want to go, and
S1: what's required to get there is actually me doing a
S1: crap ton of research and talking to other people and
S1: networking and learning. That's the only thing that's going to
S1: get me from where I'm at to where I want
S1: to go. It's not more one on ones, it's not
S1: more structure. It's learning new skills to catapult into this
S1: next level, into this next arena. And my I'm going
S1: to be sending an email out later to my team saying,
S1: this is what you can expect from me when it
S1: comes to emails moving forward, because I'm not doing emails
S1: for more than 30 minutes a day. I have other
S1: things that I have to learn and I have to
S1: contribute to and be involved with that. I currently am
S1: not able to do because so much of my time
S1: is spent approving people's projects and reviewing metrics and going
S1: through and operating. But now I have the operations skill.
S1: I don't I don't need to flex that muscle any longer.
S1: I know that I can operate, I know that I
S1: have the skill set. Therefore, what do I need to
S1: do in order to manage a portfolio of $100 million
S1: going to $1 billion going to $10 billion. It's a
S1: different skill set. It's an elevated skill set. And the
S1: fastest way to get there is learning and immersing myself
S1: in that arena. Not the same arena that I'm already in.
S1: And so this trip has been eye opening and spectacular,
S1: and being around people who make hundreds of millions, if
S1: not billions of dollars and watching how they think, watching
S1: how they operate, watching how they make decisions just through
S1: the periphery over the last week was inspiring and gave
S1: me more excitement and zest than I've had in recent
S1: months to really become the next version of myself and
S1: to put myself in uncomfortable positions yet again. The fun
S1: part of evolving and changing in order to get to
S1: where I'm trying to go. So if you haven't gone
S1: to Formula One, or if you're somebody who hates on
S1: wealth or thinks that you know money is gross, and
S1: if people make more money, they should just give all
S1: of it away because there's people who need it more.
S1: You know, you probably still aren't listening to this podcast.
S1: To be honest, I'm not that type of person that
S1: if you if you thought that that was the message
S1: for today, that is not the message. In fact, I
S1: just posted a Instagram reel where I'm explaining how I
S1: ended up with the Rolls-Royce that I drive and it's,
S1: you know, as 2 million plus views. It's gone pretty viral.
S1: And there are people who are just so not my
S1: people in the comments. They're just not my freaking people.
S1: I take zero offense to it. I could care less.
S1: I'm honestly completely unbothered by it, but it's just a
S1: reminder that I'm creating my own environment, as should you.
S1: Your environment matters and only you can decide what you're
S1: willing to tolerate, what you want, what you are going
S1: to communicate to the world about who you are, what
S1: you believe, and the level of conviction that you have
S1: for your environment is a reflection of the vision that
S1: you have for your life and for the goals that
S1: you have. And so if you're very low, confront in
S1: your environment. You don't tell people when they make you uncomfortable.
S1: You don't call people out for making a mess of
S1: something that matters to you. It might be that you're
S1: not that committed to your dream, and if that's the case,
S1: then go get around your dream. Be closer to your dream.
S1: One of my dreams one day is to have a yacht.
S1: I want a yacht. I haven't decided if I want
S1: to own one or just rent one for a month
S1: out of the year. But like, there is no question
S1: in this lifetime I'm going to freely have access to
S1: a yacht and it's going to be a big one,
S1: and it's going to be a beautiful one. I don't
S1: have that yet. I haven't created the wealth yet. I
S1: haven't created the skill set that would create the wealth yet.
S1: But getting in proximity to it made me feel even
S1: more excited about what the prospect is, and made me
S1: honestly more willing to confront the parts of my life
S1: that I've allowed to depart from where I want to go.
S1: And so, guys, I'm back in action. This is like
S1: the first hour that I've been back in my office,
S1: but I really want to share this podcast because this
S1: trip was so pivotal for me, and I'm so glad
S1: that I wrote this goal down eight years ago to
S1: go to Grand Prix in Monaco, and to be around
S1: the type of people that I've just spent the last
S1: seven days around, because those types of bucket list items,
S1: if you choose to allow them to be meaningful to you,
S1: really can transform your life and transform how you view things.
S1: And sometimes it's just about getting in that proximity to
S1: what you want in order to actually get to where
S1: you want to go.
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