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Visit audible dot com, slash I 27 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred, five hundred. 28 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: My next guest is celebrating her birthday today. Did you 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: go chime right away with the birthday? The birthday shout out? Yeah, 30 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: my next. This is a motivator, speaker, corporate consultant, and 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: executive coach. She is the double a CP Image Award 32 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: nominated author for the book The Sister Accord Fifty one 33 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: Ways to Love Your Sister. She's taken a powerful global 34 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: platform on sisterhood to now focus on exploring positive relationship 35 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: within families with her new book, fifty one Ways to 36 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: Love Your Children. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation. Founder, 37 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: President and CEO of The Accord Group, Sonia Jackson. Miles. Hello, 38 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, good morning the sorority girl. You 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: know family mother too, straight out of Cincinnati. Birthday girl. 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm one to day and you look beautiful. 41 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: You look beautiful, and those kids are about to catch you. 42 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Every two boys about to catch you now, so you 43 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: better even start sprinting because they're about to catch you. 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having man. Absolutely thank you 45 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: for being on my show. You're an amazing person of 46 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: our relationship ship started several years ago at the Disney 47 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: Dreamer's Academy with Stephen Deep Harvey. I found it with 48 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: the Disney and will fly one hundred kids from around 49 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: the country, um, boys and girls. Unlike the boys camp 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: we had, which was only featuring uh males, this camp 51 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: feature boys and girls and parents could live in father 52 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: could be in the household, and there's really an enlightening experience. 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: UH tell people why you did that the Disney Dreams Academy, 54 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was. You know when I first 55 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: met you, I was an executive at Procter and Gamble, 56 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: and you know, just wanted to ensure that I was 57 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: spending time doing the things that brought me joy as 58 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: executives and leaders. A lot of times we don't even 59 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: know what brings this joy, and so I wanted to 60 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: make sure that I could participate in a program that 61 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: really aligned with my core values. And when um the 62 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: leaders over at us and said, hey, we have something 63 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: that we think the Sister Accord would sit very nicely into, 64 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: I said, sign me up. You know I heard about 65 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: what you all were doing. It was such and it 66 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: is such an amazing program that's transforming the lives of 67 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: the parents and the students. Absolutely, it's a brand that 68 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: to be associated with Disney in general. The Giant Mouse, 69 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: you know. Let you know that that was a stamp 70 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: of approval of what we was attempting to do, not 71 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: only our community but around the country. Now, when I 72 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: met you, your platform was called the Sister of Cord. 73 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 1: Now as the Accord Group. Please tell us why it's 74 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: been renamed or what's what's is the as the mission 75 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: statement been renamed with it? Right? Oh see, I love you, Sean. 76 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: You have such amazing question. Um. So, when I first 77 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: left my role at Proctor and Gamble, I launched with 78 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: the Sister, of course, and I often tell my clients 79 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: launch with your strongest value proposition. So I decided that 80 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: Sisterhood and the things that I was seeing in the 81 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: workplace and and hearing about its schools, that girls and 82 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: women weren't getting along, they were not supporting each other, 83 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: and so I really wanted to use my voice to 84 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: change the narrative for that. So I launched with the 85 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: Sister Accord. And then I started working so much with men, 86 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: and was working so much with men even in corporate America, 87 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, they're not going to resonate with the Sister 88 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,799 Speaker 1: of course, so the name of my company it just extended. 89 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: It's the Sister of Courd LLC dB A, doing business 90 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: as the Accord Group LLC. Because I spent so much 91 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: time coaching men as well CEOs and executives in corporate America, 92 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: and I think that's important that that's why I wanted 93 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: to You do have to take some time to talk 94 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: about your brand. I know the first time you came 95 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: on my show, which was amazing, but I didn't really 96 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: get into And I love the fact that there's a transition, 97 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: there's an extended of your extension of your brand. I 98 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: always tell people that never you kind of like reinvented 99 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: your company reinvented your brand to extend. Look at my 100 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: CD you you're a natural motivator, so I thought when 101 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: you always admire what you do, but I felt that 102 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: there was a limited presentation because you're talking to everybody. 103 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: And when I when did that dawn on you that 104 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: you should expand your brand? And a lot of people, 105 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: you know, get nervous about you know, well, you know 106 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: what people think I'm I'm changing, I'm a selling out 107 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: and reaching a core group that I'm not familiar with. 108 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: But you come from Proctor and Gamble, a corporate background, 109 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: so you've been communicating with a worldly perspective of both 110 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: genders forever. So when did they When did that? When 111 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: did that click? When did that click in? When I 112 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: was putting together a proposal one a CEO had asked 113 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: me to put together a proposal for UM doing some 114 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: executive coaching and doing some leadership coaching for the organization, 115 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: and you know, and I knew that it was going 116 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: to be both men and women, right, And so I 117 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: looked at this and I said, oh my gosh, you know, 118 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: I got to do something here that makes sure that 119 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: I don't alienate anyone or that you know, the men 120 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: that I would be talking to wouldn't say, well, she's 121 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: not talking to me because I'm not a sister. So 122 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: that's when it really dawned on me. And so I 123 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: went and and register changed and updated my name so 124 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: that it could be more encompassing of what I was 125 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: really doing. Now that's really important that you because that 126 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: that is so true that you admitted that to yourself. 127 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people we need. The first 128 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: thing is I don't want to embarrass myself. I don't 129 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: want to change making people believe I made a mistake 130 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: in my platform. But you said, hey, look, if I'm 131 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: gonna resonate with all male and female in this room, 132 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: I can't alienate a certain portion saying but she was good. 133 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: But I got nothing out of it. When you naturally know, 134 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: when you naturally know that everything that you're talking about 135 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: is very relatable, absolutely, and so it's all what we were. 136 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: The only thing I did was I just built on 137 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: the foundation. The core is still there, and so you 138 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: operate an excellence with the core so that you can 139 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: attract and people can really engage with what you're talking about, 140 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: and then you find ways to pivot and expand from there. 141 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: I want to talk about this, Okay of de a 142 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: core Group, which is doing business as you have three 143 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: things I wanted to bring out because this shows about entrepreneurship, 144 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: is about people understand the leneos who are listening to 145 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: the show. Three areas leadership development, employee engagement, and team building. 146 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: Can you expound I'm gonna ask you to expound on 147 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: each one of those. So I didn't with leadership development 148 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: that you offer under your consultancy. Yeah. So one of 149 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: the things that was really important to me is I 150 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: was building my career. And I started my career at 151 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: Ford Murder Company when I left Florida and m University. 152 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: I was there for thirteen years and then I went 153 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: to the Gillette Company, and I wasn't there in Boston 154 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: very long before Proctor and Gamble acquired Gillette and I 155 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: had to most to Cincinnati. And so one of the 156 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: things that was really important to me when I first 157 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: started my career was understanding who I was at my 158 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: core so that I could operate in it. Because when 159 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: you drive and operate in our authenticity, that's when the 160 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: magic happens. And so I really wanted to help people 161 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: understand what my leadership journey was when I started my career, 162 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: this whole notion of compassionate leadership and servant leadership did 163 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: not exist. I had to create it for myself with 164 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: Sean because I didn't see what I wanted. I didn't 165 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: see it because people kept telling me, well, you can't 166 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: get to know your employees, you can't focus too much 167 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: on employees, you can't do this, and you can't do that. 168 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: They kept telling me what I couldn't do. But what 169 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: I saw, because the automotive business is a very tough business, 170 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: what I saw was leaders pounding on the table, screaming, cursing. 171 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: I didn't do any of that. None of that was 172 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: authentically who I was. So I knew that I couldn't 173 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: operate that way. And I said to my leaders, I said, now, 174 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: if this is the leadership style that can win in 175 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: this environment, this is not gonna be for me. So 176 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: I made a choice very early on in my career 177 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: of how my brand, how I was going to show up, 178 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: and how I was going to serve, and that I 179 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: was there to serve. That it wasn't about me as 180 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: a leader, and the most importantly, how you was gonna 181 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: lead correct how you I wanted to own the whole 182 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: that thought right quick because in our next break fifty 183 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: one Ways to Love Your Children, We're gonna go in 184 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: detail about that because she two weeks ago when she 185 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: was in Atlanta, she personally handed me the book and 186 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: we want to talk about the team building, but more importantly, 187 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: fifty one Ways to Love your Children. I need a 188 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: bigger version of this so I can put it on 189 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: my table. Were right back with more money making conversations. 190 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: Keep women and everybody keep winning. Money making conversation is 191 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: your show because this Rae Sean McDonald, we're back on online. 192 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,319 Speaker 1: Is the birthday girl. I gotta because you know when 193 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: this goes out, because I'm gonna go on podcast. We 194 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: want everybody know this show really was dedicated to Sonya 195 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: Jackson Miles because of her birthday. Birthday, straight out sisting 196 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: that straight out sist now and then you have now 197 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 1: two weeks ago. She was the reason why I engaged 198 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: so well with her because she's, Uh, when you have 199 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: six sisters and you meet somebody who's naturally personal like 200 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: her she is, and she's a mom and and she's 201 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: out there traveling, so I know her heart is someplace, 202 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: but she knows she has to deal with the issues 203 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: of her career and that's what she's dealing with to 204 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: create a book before we get into the fifth doing 205 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: Ways to Love Your your Children. And I want to 206 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: tell everybody, this book is like a you know, it's 207 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: a it's a you're watching online. I'm holding it up. Um. 208 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: This book is like a it should be on my table. 209 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: So this is a requesting I need a bigger version 210 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: of this book and I'm willing to pay whatever that 211 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: charges because the pictures are amazing. And I hope you're 212 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: posting some of the motivational quote or the quoture along 213 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: with the photos online and if you do, let me 214 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: let me know so I can share them on my 215 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: Facebook page because they're they're so personalble, they're so incredible, 216 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: and they're so inspiring. And that's and it's all tied 217 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: to your children. I have a one year old daughter. 218 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: You know, I don't care what I'm doing, what I'm 219 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: a business meeting I'm in. When she calls, I pick 220 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: up the phone because I know she had a point 221 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: in her life where I don't want, you know, her 222 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: making a decision because the reason she calls, she called 223 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: me for a reason just gonna call love your dad. 224 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: But there's a reason she's calling. And what what you need, 225 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: baby girl? And and so that's why I really love 226 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: this book that you put out because I know children 227 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: are the key. And when I see situations with children 228 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: that don't go well, you know where George are gonna 229 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: being abused, I always say, they have to be here. 230 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: These children that ask to be here, they are blank slates. 231 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: All they know is instant love. All they want is 232 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,319 Speaker 1: to to get what you can teach them. And they 233 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: hold on to those values and those those those moments 234 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: that you share with them emotionally. And that's why I 235 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: love is real big on her book, Ladies and Gentlemen's 236 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: real big. It's like Valentine's love on this book is. 237 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: So before we get into a book, let's talk a 238 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: little about employee engagement U that you do in your consultancy, 239 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: which is the Sister Accord uh d B A deal 240 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: Core Group UH Employment and Employment, Employee Engagement and team building. Yes, 241 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: well there are statistics. Now I'm gonna blow you away 242 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: with this one. You probably already know this, but um, 243 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: you know, research shows that up to eighty five to 244 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: ninetent of in U and the us of employees in 245 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: a company are disengaged. Did you hear Did you hear that? Absolutely? 246 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: And I believe that. I mean, think about why you 247 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: can't meet your profitability targets, think about why your efficiency 248 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: isn't there in your productivity if employees are disengaged. And 249 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: so I spend a lot of time with companies helping 250 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: them understand the kinds of cultures uh that they can 251 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: estab lish. To really engage employees, have people understand what 252 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: their role is in the company very clearly, because I 253 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: believe it or not, a lot of times people aren't 254 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: really clear about their roles. But give people some opportunities 255 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: and some tools to really bring their gifts to the 256 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: table be engaged. Loneliness in the workplace is real, particularly 257 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: if you think differently uh than your colleagues or your boss, 258 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: or you you look differently, it can be a very 259 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: lonely place. And so employee engagement just is about getting 260 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: these cultures right so that everyone can win and everyone 261 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: can be engaged, all hands on deck. And then team building. 262 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with my Great Leaders 263 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: have Great Relationship series where I am talking about how 264 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: teams can come together across the company. It was interesting 265 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: that you was talking about disengagement. I had h very 266 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: talented entrepreneur on the phone on the show, came in 267 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: my studio live. He has a book called Leader Farming. 268 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: For his book is about trying to cultivate uh, you know, 269 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: play on words, farming, farming leaves, developing leaders. And in 270 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: that book he was saying, and he's a franchise owner 271 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: for a Chick fil A, and he was talking about 272 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: he was talking about the millennial population because their whole 273 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: that's what this whole book is about, trying to engage 274 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: this population, because this is a population that says, you 275 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: will work for me. Okay, I'm an entrepreneur, you will 276 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: work for me. So they really struggle with this whole 277 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: loyalty and how long I'm gonna be here? How long 278 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: I should be there at this job because this is 279 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: not a long term. I'm not here at this location 280 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: to get the gold watch. I'm here at you like 281 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: sustain a level of income, get my real goal in perspective, 282 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: and get out. And he said that the struggle is 283 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: trying to get that that that mentality that I'm only 284 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: his short term, maybe through college, maybe just six months, 285 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: I get my feet right and I get this up 286 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: and rolling, get this whole idea and digital that I'm 287 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: trying to put out that rolling because social media has 288 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: changed that platform, that platform of engage me, because you 289 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: have people out there who have developed their own brands 290 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: that you've hired, and they feel that their brand is 291 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: really more important than you hiring them. Absolutely, absolutely. And 292 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with millennials because you know, 293 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: I told you on twenty one, right, and so I 294 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: you know, I spent a lot of time with them. 295 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: I understand them, and I wish that I had my 296 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: generation had a little more of of how they think 297 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: about things, because we just accepted stuff. It could have 298 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: been raggedy and ratchet, but we still excepted autely. Now 299 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: tell us about that. I like that. So tell us 300 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: about the fifty one Ways to Love your Children. Why 301 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: did you write this book? Well, it's interesting. So, um 302 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: one of my programs that has been incorporated into Disney 303 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: Dreams Academy is my dream marking program, and Dreamworking is 304 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: my attempt at solving helping people overcome dream phobia. Now, 305 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: I created the word dream phobia, So the definition is, um, 306 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: you know, the ridiculous and absurd fear of playing full 307 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: out in life because you are more concerned with stayings 308 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: small to please other people, or staying or playing its 309 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: safe to please yourself. I was playing its safe kind 310 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: of girl for many years, and so I wanted to 311 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: help people understand the process of how I brought my 312 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: dream to life, taking my dream from my heart to 313 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: my head, to my hands and to my feet. And 314 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: so dream walking, um was a you know, a big 315 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: part of it. It is a big part of Disney 316 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: Dreaming Academy and for my consultancy, and I wanted to 317 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: really address the things that are dream killers, that get 318 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: in the way of people really operating in what they've 319 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: been called and created to do. And that's um what 320 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: fifty one Way to Love Your Children is all about. 321 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: A lot of the stuff that we carry as adults 322 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: happened to us in childhood. And a lot of times 323 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: parents don't even realize it. It's what they say and 324 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,479 Speaker 1: what they don't say, it's what they do and what 325 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: they don't do. And so I wanted to start a 326 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: conversation about how we must invest in love and take 327 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: care of our children, because in so many instances, if 328 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: you turn on the news, you'll see the opposite happening. 329 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: Our children are dying at the hands of their parents, 330 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: are being abused, neglected, and so I wanted to use 331 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: my voice and my platform to really talk about what 332 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: we were going to do about it. It's important that 333 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: you did it. Here's a statement that I love about 334 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: the book or throughout the book is, first of all, 335 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: the photos are so emotionally charged. Okay, I love this book. 336 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: And then you have little sections where you can just 337 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: write notes, and that's the part she's talking about when 338 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: you get memories what were you doing when you're we're 339 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: a teenager? What do you remember about your childhood? So 340 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: you can implement these these emotional or these memories into 341 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: raising your child to day or what things what what? What? 342 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: What failed you? You fail failed you that you can 343 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: fix because I'll have a statement. Always tell people that 344 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: what you learn in your twenties, I will tell people 345 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: you wan't to know about your life you want to 346 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: play in your future. I always feel you have to 347 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: look back in your past. That's a defining moment in 348 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: your path allows you to move forward. But if you 349 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: set up and say I'm gonna figure it out, right now, 350 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: I don't think you can have long term success. So 351 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: I tell people, what you learn in your twenties, whatever 352 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: you skill you learn your twenties is what you're gonna 353 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: be making money with in your forties and fifties. That 354 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: thirty year, thirty year period of growth is a boy 355 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: the gaining that experience, so you can't make money. So 356 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: when I read this book and I was able to 357 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: see those little chapters or those markings, that's saying, hey, 358 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: write something about what happened to you. I went, she 359 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: got it, she understands it. And this this is something 360 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: I just need a bigger version. I'm just telling you 361 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: right now, all right, brother, we're gonna happen. You know. 362 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: I write that check seriously because this book is so beautiful, 363 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: Because I got this giant book with Will Smith, all 364 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: these celebrities. These are everyday people, and when you walk 365 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: into my home, I would love to be to put 366 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: a big version of this book next to it because 367 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: these are everyday people talking about loving their children, experiencing 368 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: their lifestyle in a very relatable fashion. Tell us where 369 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: we where we get the book, tell us about the work, 370 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: and get the bookfore we get out of here. So 371 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: right now, um we you can purchase the book online 372 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: on my website. Soom yeah s O N I A 373 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: Jackson Miles M y l E S dot com. And 374 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: we're getting ready to uh put it up on iTunes 375 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: and uh it will be on Amazon. Um it will be. 376 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,959 Speaker 1: We'll go back to Bonds and Noble just like we 377 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: did before Burns and Noble dot com. So we are 378 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: filling the pipeline and um, you ready for all of 379 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: our sales. And we we already have a school district 380 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: who has said that they're going to give it to 381 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: the parents. 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