WEBVTT - Out of Office, Into Alignment 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 Welcome to business and the podcast for people making it 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.320 all happen. Running a successful business completely takes over your life, 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.120 but I'm a believer that there is still room for 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.560 some ands like health, wealth, beauty, and maybe even some fashion. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.960 On this podcast, I'll share with you what's working for 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.840 scaling my nine figure business while keeping you up to 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.040 date on the latest trends, news and fun finds. This 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.000 is a place for business and let's dive in. Back 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.720 to business and let's talk about business and vacation. This 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.279 is the very first trip I have taken in the 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.280 last six years, where I set an out of office 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:44.440 and my out of office said this. Bonjour! I'm currently 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.120 out of the office and we'll be back online next Wednesday. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.440 This week is a special one. I'm checking off a 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.720 longtime personal, professional, and financial goal of heading to Formula 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.760 One in Monaco while I'm away. If something is urgent, 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.280 feel free to text me. To request a meeting. Please 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:04.240 reach out to tailor insert my assistant's email. And finally, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.330 and most importantly, I won't be sorting through a backlog 0:01:07.330 --> 0:01:09.649 of emails when I return. My inbox was at zero 0:01:09.650 --> 0:01:12.290 before I left and will be cleared while I'm out. 0:01:12.330 --> 0:01:14.610 If there's something I need to see, please resend it 0:01:14.610 --> 0:01:17.410 on Wednesday when I return so it doesn't get missed. 0:01:17.650 --> 0:01:21.490 Thanks so much and have a ten day. The reason 0:01:21.490 --> 0:01:24.090 I set this out of office is I am going 0:01:24.090 --> 0:01:27.730 to change my environment, and being in Monaco solidified this 0:01:27.730 --> 0:01:30.810 change that I'm about to go through. Because in order 0:01:30.810 --> 0:01:32.290 to get to where I want to go, I can't 0:01:32.290 --> 0:01:34.730 keep spending my time the way that I'm spending my time. 0:01:35.010 --> 0:01:40.250 I've had different transitions through running Cardoen ventures, where I 0:01:40.450 --> 0:01:46.330 reshape meetings, I reshape emails, I reshape my communication to 0:01:46.370 --> 0:01:48.730 my team and my role with my team. And that's 0:01:48.730 --> 0:01:50.930 had to happen in order to go from where we 0:01:50.930 --> 0:01:53.370 were six years ago to having hundreds of team members 0:01:53.370 --> 0:01:57.570 today with portfolio companies and partners and different demands on 0:01:57.570 --> 0:02:01.970 my time. But being in Monaco just cemented for me 0:02:01.970 --> 0:02:06.050 that I have to take full ownership of my environment 0:02:06.370 --> 0:02:09.670 and how I set other people up for success in 0:02:09.669 --> 0:02:12.870 my environment and it's really cool. Right now, I updated 0:02:12.870 --> 0:02:16.470 my screensaver because my screensaver for me is always like 0:02:16.470 --> 0:02:19.709 the theme of the current time that I'm in. And 0:02:19.710 --> 0:02:24.990 my screensaver is this picture of this glass building on 0:02:24.990 --> 0:02:31.190 a street of brownstones, and this glass building has bright 0:02:31.190 --> 0:02:35.669 pink smoke in it. So it's like electrifying. And it 0:02:35.710 --> 0:02:39.150 it's different. It stands out from everything else that's beside it. 0:02:39.150 --> 0:02:43.750 And this is my visual on building my own dream 0:02:43.750 --> 0:02:48.590 house and my environment is what my dream house is. 0:02:48.950 --> 0:02:53.910 And when you really own how you do business, how 0:02:53.910 --> 0:02:56.110 you want your life structured, how you want people to 0:02:56.110 --> 0:02:59.430 communicate with you, who you want to show up as. 0:02:59.590 --> 0:03:01.910 It's okay that the way you do things might look 0:03:01.950 --> 0:03:04.950 entirely different than everybody else, because it is your freaking 0:03:04.950 --> 0:03:08.790 dream house. It is your environment that you get to create, 0:03:08.790 --> 0:03:11.790 that you get to craft. And I just had this 0:03:11.790 --> 0:03:15.720 realization right before I went out of the country that 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.640 I am no longer going to pretend like I'm every 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.639 other brownstone on the block. Like, oh, come in, and 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.880 we're just slightly better. No. Like the way I do 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.240 things and the way that I want to run. My 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.600 life is different. The way that I view the people 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.880 who I will allow in my environment is different. My expectations, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.000 they are different. And so pretending. And this is a 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.040 trap that I sometimes find myself in. Pretending like it's 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.640 the same and then surprising people doesn't get a great result. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.160 But being so clear on who you are, what you expect, 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.520 what you want your environment to look like, and being 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.760 really willing to confront areas that don't fit. Is this 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.000 next area of evolution. And so as something as simple 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.680 as emails, I mean, every vacation I've taken for six 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.440 years has been me still answering emails and waking up 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.840 early in order to to clear out my inbox and 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.200 to make sure I'm there for my team. And what 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.320 if something happens? No, I'm now in a phase where 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.240 that doesn't work. That's not going to get me where 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.340 I want to go, where I want to go, and 0:04:17.339 --> 0:04:19.620 what's required to get there is actually me doing a 0:04:19.620 --> 0:04:22.900 crap ton of research and talking to other people and 0:04:22.900 --> 0:04:26.300 networking and learning. That's the only thing that's going to 0:04:26.300 --> 0:04:27.660 get me from where I'm at to where I want 0:04:27.700 --> 0:04:30.419 to go. It's not more one on ones, it's not 0:04:30.420 --> 0:04:36.580 more structure. It's learning new skills to catapult into this 0:04:36.580 --> 0:04:41.820 next level, into this next arena. And my I'm going 0:04:41.860 --> 0:04:44.339 to be sending an email out later to my team saying, 0:04:44.339 --> 0:04:45.820 this is what you can expect from me when it 0:04:45.820 --> 0:04:48.299 comes to emails moving forward, because I'm not doing emails 0:04:48.300 --> 0:04:50.180 for more than 30 minutes a day. I have other 0:04:50.180 --> 0:04:52.460 things that I have to learn and I have to 0:04:52.500 --> 0:04:56.340 contribute to and be involved with that. I currently am 0:04:56.339 --> 0:04:58.340 not able to do because so much of my time 0:04:58.339 --> 0:05:02.820 is spent approving people's projects and reviewing metrics and going 0:05:02.820 --> 0:05:06.940 through and operating. But now I have the operations skill. 0:05:06.940 --> 0:05:09.860 I don't I don't need to flex that muscle any longer. 0:05:09.860 --> 0:05:11.500 I know that I can operate, I know that I 0:05:11.500 --> 0:05:13.300 have the skill set. Therefore, what do I need to 0:05:13.300 --> 0:05:18.540 do in order to manage a portfolio of $100 million 0:05:18.580 --> 0:05:21.390 going to $1 billion going to $10 billion. It's a 0:05:21.390 --> 0:05:24.750 different skill set. It's an elevated skill set. And the 0:05:24.750 --> 0:05:28.230 fastest way to get there is learning and immersing myself 0:05:28.230 --> 0:05:31.630 in that arena. Not the same arena that I'm already in. 0:05:31.910 --> 0:05:35.790 And so this trip has been eye opening and spectacular, 0:05:35.790 --> 0:05:39.390 and being around people who make hundreds of millions, if 0:05:39.390 --> 0:05:42.310 not billions of dollars and watching how they think, watching 0:05:42.310 --> 0:05:46.670 how they operate, watching how they make decisions just through 0:05:46.670 --> 0:05:51.510 the periphery over the last week was inspiring and gave 0:05:51.510 --> 0:05:57.830 me more excitement and zest than I've had in recent 0:05:57.830 --> 0:06:02.070 months to really become the next version of myself and 0:06:02.070 --> 0:06:06.630 to put myself in uncomfortable positions yet again. The fun 0:06:06.630 --> 0:06:10.070 part of evolving and changing in order to get to 0:06:10.110 --> 0:06:13.190 where I'm trying to go. So if you haven't gone 0:06:13.190 --> 0:06:15.550 to Formula One, or if you're somebody who hates on 0:06:15.550 --> 0:06:18.350 wealth or thinks that you know money is gross, and 0:06:18.350 --> 0:06:20.470 if people make more money, they should just give all 0:06:20.470 --> 0:06:23.070 of it away because there's people who need it more. 0:06:24.370 --> 0:06:26.089 You know, you probably still aren't listening to this podcast. 0:06:26.089 --> 0:06:28.290 To be honest, I'm not that type of person that 0:06:28.330 --> 0:06:30.409 if you if you thought that that was the message 0:06:30.410 --> 0:06:33.490 for today, that is not the message. In fact, I 0:06:33.490 --> 0:06:38.250 just posted a Instagram reel where I'm explaining how I 0:06:38.250 --> 0:06:41.690 ended up with the Rolls-Royce that I drive and it's, 0:06:41.930 --> 0:06:45.050 you know, as 2 million plus views. It's gone pretty viral. 0:06:45.610 --> 0:06:49.130 And there are people who are just so not my 0:06:49.130 --> 0:06:52.089 people in the comments. They're just not my freaking people. 0:06:52.089 --> 0:06:54.529 I take zero offense to it. I could care less. 0:06:54.570 --> 0:06:57.970 I'm honestly completely unbothered by it, but it's just a 0:06:57.970 --> 0:07:01.730 reminder that I'm creating my own environment, as should you. 0:07:02.130 --> 0:07:05.849 Your environment matters and only you can decide what you're 0:07:05.850 --> 0:07:11.250 willing to tolerate, what you want, what you are going 0:07:11.290 --> 0:07:14.050 to communicate to the world about who you are, what 0:07:14.050 --> 0:07:17.210 you believe, and the level of conviction that you have 0:07:17.250 --> 0:07:21.650 for your environment is a reflection of the vision that 0:07:21.650 --> 0:07:24.090 you have for your life and for the goals that 0:07:24.090 --> 0:07:27.450 you have. And so if you're very low, confront in 0:07:27.450 --> 0:07:31.300 your environment. You don't tell people when they make you uncomfortable. 0:07:31.340 --> 0:07:34.260 You don't call people out for making a mess of 0:07:34.260 --> 0:07:37.500 something that matters to you. It might be that you're 0:07:37.500 --> 0:07:39.740 not that committed to your dream, and if that's the case, 0:07:39.740 --> 0:07:42.820 then go get around your dream. Be closer to your dream. 0:07:42.980 --> 0:07:45.620 One of my dreams one day is to have a yacht. 0:07:45.980 --> 0:07:47.780 I want a yacht. I haven't decided if I want 0:07:47.820 --> 0:07:50.940 to own one or just rent one for a month 0:07:50.940 --> 0:07:53.540 out of the year. But like, there is no question 0:07:53.540 --> 0:07:57.700 in this lifetime I'm going to freely have access to 0:07:57.740 --> 0:08:00.220 a yacht and it's going to be a big one, 0:08:00.220 --> 0:08:01.820 and it's going to be a beautiful one. I don't 0:08:01.820 --> 0:08:03.860 have that yet. I haven't created the wealth yet. I 0:08:03.860 --> 0:08:06.820 haven't created the skill set that would create the wealth yet. 0:08:07.140 --> 0:08:09.740 But getting in proximity to it made me feel even 0:08:09.740 --> 0:08:12.900 more excited about what the prospect is, and made me 0:08:12.900 --> 0:08:16.940 honestly more willing to confront the parts of my life 0:08:16.940 --> 0:08:21.740 that I've allowed to depart from where I want to go. 0:08:21.940 --> 0:08:24.980 And so, guys, I'm back in action. This is like 0:08:25.020 --> 0:08:26.900 the first hour that I've been back in my office, 0:08:26.900 --> 0:08:28.980 but I really want to share this podcast because this 0:08:28.980 --> 0:08:32.640 trip was so pivotal for me, and I'm so glad 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.719 that I wrote this goal down eight years ago to 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.360 go to Grand Prix in Monaco, and to be around 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.079 the type of people that I've just spent the last 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.400 seven days around, because those types of bucket list items, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.880 if you choose to allow them to be meaningful to you, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.120 really can transform your life and transform how you view things. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.360 And sometimes it's just about getting in that proximity to 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.240 what you want in order to actually get to where 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:00.000 you want to go. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.360 If you enjoyed this podcast, you are going to definitely 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.199 not want to miss out on my new newsletter. 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